Julee Cottage is an historic home built in c. 1805 and located in the Historic Pensacola Village (within the Pensacola Historic District) at 210 East Zaragoza Street in Pensacola, Florida, U.S..[1][2] [3] The building serves as the home of the Black History Museum of West Florida (or Center for Black Heritage).[3][4]
Pensacola Historic District is registered in the United States National Register of Historic Places since September 29, 1970.[5]
History edit
The Julee Cottage was built in Pensacola from cypress wood between 1804 and 1808 (although some sources date it as early as 1790).[3][6] The building has a tin roof and has a platform frame construction, similar to architecture of the Creole cottages in Louisiana.[2][6]
One of the building's earliest owners was Julee Panton, a free woman of color.[2] She lived among a community of freedmen and sold baked goods and candles. According to legend, she purchased the freedom of enslaved African Americans.[1] The cottage was sold to another freedwoman named Angelica and was later passed on to other black families.[6]
The cottage has been relocated from its original site in order to preserve it,[3] and it has a historical marker. It is stop number 2 on the Pensacola African American Heritage Trail hosted by the African American Heritage Society.[2] Images of the structure exist in archives including in the State Archives of Florida.[7] The Black History Museum of West Florida (or Center for Black Heritage) hosts an exhibition of old documents and photographs to tell the story of Black life in Pensacola in the 19th century.[3]
Other notable homes in the Pensacola Historic District include the Dorr House, and the Lavalle House.[8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Appleyard, John (May 12, 2019). "Julee Cottage offers special glimpse into Pensacola history". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ a b c d "Julee Cottage". Historic Pensacola. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e McCarthy, Kevin M. (2019-07-24). African American Sites in Florida. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 67–68. ISBN 978-1-56164-951-8.
- ^ Nylander, Chorus (2020-07-24). "Recent T.T Wentworth's KKK history findings considered for Julee Cottage museum". WEAR News 3. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ "Pensacola Historic District #70000184". NPGallery, Digital Asset Management System. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b c "Julee Cottage a Tribute to History". Orlando Sentinel. September 8, 1989. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ "Three Children Talking with an African American Family at the Julee Cottage - Pensacola, Florida". Florida Memory, State Archives of Florida.
- ^ Jenkins, Greg (September 2007). Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore: The Gulf Coast and Pensacola. Pineapple Press Inc. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-56164-399-8.
External links edit
Media related to Julee Cottage at Wikimedia Commons
