The Gulf Breeze was also a passenger train run by Amtrak.

Gulf Breeze is a city located on the Fairpoint Peninsula in Santa Rosa County, Florida and is considered a suburb of Pensacola, FL. The population was 5,665 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 6,333 ^*, an 11.79% increase.

History

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Gulf Breeze shares the rich history of Pensacola Bay. Shell mounds here date back over one thousand years, evidence of the Native Americans desire for seafood. The first European settlement was attempted in 1559 by Tristan de Luna, but was abandoned two years later. The Spanish returned in 1698, but transferred all of Florida to the British in 1763. It was the British who named Town Point. British Navy Cove was the area where ships were careened, a process of hauling ships aground to allow the hulls to be scraped free of barnacles.

Florida became American territory in 1821, and by 1824 a road ran through the peninsula all the way to St. Augustine. Part of this road can be traced in the Naval Live Oaks Area of Gulf Islands National Seashore today. President John Quincy Adams authorized Naval Live Oaks, a federal tree farm dedicated to providing live oak timber for U.S. Navy ships, in 1828. The Pensacola Navy Yard dates to 1825, and the Army began building forts to protect the yard and Pensacola Bay in 1829. Beginning with Fort Pickens, the Army built harbor forts off and on through World War II, all of which are within Gulf Islands National Seashore, a unit of the National Park System. Fort Pickens was one of only four forts in the South to be held by the U.S. Army during the entire Civil War. In November of 1861, Union held Fort Pickens exchanged 6000 rounds of cannon fire for two days with Confederates at Fort Barrancas and Fort McRee. Both Confederate held forts were heavily damaged and the Confederates abandoned the area in May of 1862.

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thealienproject (Andre Heath) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:29:14 -0000
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@davidhuey Hope you enjoyed one of my favorites. Mike Weaver (Big Daddy) is a mutual friend. They're from Gulf Breeze.
TheDefShepherd (Scott Blanchard) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:01:29 -0000
@davidhuey Hope you enjoyed one of my favorites. Mike Weaver (Big Daddy) is a mutual friend. They're from Gulf Breeze.
Headed to gulf breeze. I reeeeeeally want starbucks.
coretuhknee (Courtney Andrews) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:21:44 -0000
Headed to gulf breeze. I reeeeeeally want starbucks.

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