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Pensacola was first settled on August 15, 1559, when Spanish explorer Don Tristan de Luna established a colony there, making it the first European settlement in the continental United States, six years before St. Augustine.

Pensacola's first settlement was destroyed by a hurricane on September 19, 1559, barely a month after it was founded, and the colony was abandoned by 1561; Spain did not resettle Pensacola until 1698.

Pensacola is known as the 'City of Five Flags' because five governments have flown their flags over it: Spain, France, Britain, the Confederate States and the United States.

Pensacola is the county seat of Escambia County, the westernmost county in Florida, sitting at the far western end of the Florida Panhandle.

Pensacola recorded 54,312 residents in the 2020 Census and has about 25,109 households, with a comparatively high owner-occupied rate of about 64.2%.

Naval Air Station Pensacola, established as the Navy's first naval air station, earned Pensacola the nickname 'Cradle of Naval Aviation'.

NAS Pensacola is the home base of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, formed in 1946.

The National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola is one of the largest aviation museums in the world.

Ships from Tristan de Luna's 1559 fleet were discovered wrecked at Emanuel Point in Pensacola Bay beginning in 1992, and archaeologists identified the site of his settlement on land in 2015.

Fort Pickens, a massive brick fort built between 1829 and 1834 on Santa Rosa Island across the bay from Pensacola, is preserved today as part of Gulf Islands National Seashore.