Louisville & Nashville Railroad grain elevator
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad grain elevator was a grain elevator located at Tarragona Wharf on Pensacola Bay. It was constructed in 1898 and had a capacity of 500,000 bushels of wheat. The automatic carrier connecting the elevator to the wharf was the longest in the world at the time of its construction.
| L&N grain elevator | |
 Grain elevator and Tarragona Wharf as seen from the the American National Bank Building c. 1910 or 1911 | |
| Building Information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Tarragona Wharf |
| Client | Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
| Completion Date | 1898 |
| Cost | $150,000 |
| Date Demolished | 1926 ? |
Several of the "bird's eye" photographs taken of Pensacola in the early 1900s (see 1909) were taken from atop the L&N grain elevator.
It was damaged beyond repair in the 1926 hurricane.
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ReferencesEdit
- J. S. Glass, editor. The Southern Manufacturer, Volume V, Number 3. New Orleans: June 1901.