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Under the [[British Pensacola|British]] city plan drawn up around [[1764]] by [[Elias Durnford]], each individual building lot in the city was issued a companion piece of ground along what was then the northern border of the town. The thoroughfare which developed along this row of garden lots was fittingly called Garden Street:
{{cquote|The lots south of Garden street had an area of 80 feet front and 170 in depth. North of that street they were 192 feet square, known as arpent or Garden lots, and numbered to correspond with those lying south of Garden street, which were, strictly speaking, town lots. In order to furnish each family with a garden spot, each grantee of a town lot was entitled, upon the condition of improvement, to receive a conveyance of an arpent lot of the same number as his town lot.|20px|20px|Campbell, Richard L. [http://ia311206.us.archive.org/1/items/historicalsketch00camprich/historicalsketch00camprich.pdf "Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida"]. The Williams Publishing Co., Cleveland: 1892.}}