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==Yellow fever epidemics in Pensacola==
Yellow fever epidemics struck Pensacola in the following years:<ref name="choppin">Choppin, Samuel. [http://books.google.com/books?id=K3YCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22yellow+fever%22+epidemic+pensacola&source=web&ots=cCcppAaviP&sig=QRrgi6QZmxcVlfP_ZyiwjqMTJ_c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result "History of the The Importation of Yellow Fever Into the United States From, 1693 to 1878."] ''Public Health Reports and Papers, Volume IV: 190-206'', American Public Health Association. Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880.</ref>. (This list may not be complete.)
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*[[1822]]
In the epidemic of 1822, most residents of the Pensacola area either fled or died. According to one estimate, the population was reduced from about 4000 before the epidemic to about 1400 after; a different estimate appears below. Commerce and industry were almost entirely destroyed.<ref name="bigler"/> The first legislature of the Territory of Pensacola met in Pensacola in 1822. Because of the epidemic, the legislative sessions were moved to a farm 15 miles out of town.<ref>Wilkerson, Lyn. ["Roads Less Traveled: Exploring America's Past on its Back Roads", http://books.google.com/books?id=gg_LxZfWx0MC], p.417. iUniverse, 2000</ref> Here are a few excerpts from eyewitness accounts of this the epidemic:<ref>"1822 Yellow Fever" http://genealogytrails.com/fla/escambia/epidemic_1822.html</ref>
"A terrible epidemic has visited Pensacola... About a hundred and fifty have, in twenty days, been consigned to the tomb, and as many as eighteen have fallen in a single day. Never, perhaps, was a fever more universally fatal, utterly defying the aid of medicine; no instance of a recovery after an attack, has occurred."
