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==History==
Prior to 1887, the park was known as Florida Square. On June 8, 1887, the commissioners of the Provisional Municipality of Pensacola adopted "an ordinance to fix the names of certain streets and Florida Square." Section 4 of the ordinance read, "That Florida Square between Gadsden and Jackson on Palafox be known as R. E. Lee Park." ===DevelopmentMonument===
In [[1881]], [[Confederate]] general and future Florida governor [[Edward Aylesworth Perry]] led a movement to erect memorial in Tallahassee honoring the state's Confederate dead. Fundraising efforts were slow, with most donations coming from Perry's own [[Escambia County]]. After his death in [[1899]], only $3,005 had been raised, all but $87 of which from the Pensacola area.