Professor Jimmy Wilson presented a paper at the Social Science History Association in Long Beach aboard the Queen Mary. The presentation summarized research on the morphogenesis of Spanish colonial Pensacola and West Florida, 1781-1821. Land deeds, census records, and archaeological remains suggest that Pensacola morphed from a small, sparsely populated, military outpost in 1781 to a demographically diverse and modern Spanish plaza by 1821. Rural West Florida settlement began close to town and Pensacola Bay with a few small industries and farms. By 1817, increased numbers of timber milling ventures and Anglo settlements began to appear in the uplands in what was until recently the frontier between Pensacola Bay and Alabama. Wilson (pictured here on the porch at Dr. Ellen Wilson's - no relation - house during the spaghetti dinner), also had accommodations on the storied Queen Mary.
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