If you live
in Escambia County, or you have vacationed along her
incomparable beaches, you already know that this is
first and foremost a community rich in history and tradition
and a showpiece of nature’s wonders.
America’s history begins right
here. A half-century before the arrival of the Pilgrims
at Plymouth, the original residents of Escambia County—the
Creek and Poarch Indians—were on hand for the first
landing of Europeans anywhere on the American mainland.
Over the course of the next 400 years, the flags of
five nations flew over this area on one or more occasions.
Escambia County was created by
the Territorial Legislature on July 22, 1821 to be Florida’s
first county, a distinction it shares with St. John’s
County.
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