Historic Pensacola's Museum of Commerce

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Historic Pensacola's Museum of Commerce
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Location within Florida
Location Pensacola, Florida
Coordinates 30°24′31″N87°12′41″W / 30.40851°N 87.21151°W / 30.40851; -87.21151
Website www.historicpensacola.org

The Museum of Commerce is a reconstruction of a Pensacola, Florida streetscene based on businesses that operated in Pensacola between 1880 and 1910. It is part of the Historic Pensacola Village in the Pensacola Historic District. [1]

The Museum consists of twenty properties; some are interpretive history sites. They include stores for toys, leather goods, hardware and music, a print shop, a gas station, and a tram. The print shop contains one of the most complete collections of antique printing presses and type in the Southeast. [2] The trolley has reversible seats, as it cannot turn around. The conductor takes his steering wheel to the other end, and runs the trolley in that direction.

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References

  1. "Museum of Commerce". Historic Pensacola. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  2. Pensacola Attractions