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:::Haha, this is Pensacola. If you're looking for a single, shining incorporation date, you're not going to find one. The initial date in your list is the first legislative incorporation of the City, rather, the date of the first "official" incorporation of the first incarnation of City of Pensacola. Between that initial "official" incorporation in 1823 and the dissolution of the City as a legal entity in 1885, the City was reincorporated several times. In 1885, the City of Pensacola ceased to exist legally and was replaced by the Provisional Municipality of Pensacola. The City of Pensacola was reincorporated in 1895, and again in 1913 and 1931.
:::How you write this I guess depends on whether you want to frame the question in a legal sense or in a practical sense. Legally? The current legal entity that is the City of Pensacola has only existed since 1931. Practically? Andrew Jackson established or unofficially incorporated the City in 1821, and it has been dissolved and reincorporated a slew of times since. <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 21:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
::::It's not that I'm looking for a single date to say "Pensacola was incorporated ''here''," just that I'd like to what each one means. But if we're sure that [[June 28]], [[1823]] was the earliest date of incorporation by the territorial assembly... that'll be a good start. <span style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''''[[User:Admin|admin]]''''' • '''''[[User_talk:Admin|talk]]''''' </span> 14:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)