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Molino Museum To Open Saturday
January 24, 2014
Grand opening for the Molino Museum be held at 10:00 this Saturday morning inside the Molino Community Complex.
At 2 p.m., Lil King, president of the Molino Mid-County Historical Society will host a presentation on “The History of Molino”. A special tour of the museum will be given following the event at 3 p.m.
With its location just 25 miles north of Pensacola, the Molino area, including the old town of Molino, played a vital role in the area’s settlement and development. From its start as a Spanish mission in the 1700s, an important mill town during the Industrial Revolution and into the modern era, Molino’s history is the story of life in rural Florida and how it has changed over the years.
The Molino Community Complex — the former Molino School — is located at 6450 Highway 95A.
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5 Responses to “Molino Museum To Open Saturday”
We’ve needed this for some time. Visitors to Pensacola don’t know much if anything about the Lumber boom and how historical the area from Cantonment up to Molino is. This gives visitors to the Beach another place to visit after they burn themselves to learn more history of the area. I am a former president of the Pensacola Historical Society and know how our history draws visitors. Historical tourism is expected to increase dramatically as is Nature based tourism. We’ve got all of that from Becks Lake Fish Camp (Cantonment) up to north of Molino on the Escambia River, the 4th largest River in Florida and one of the most historic. Our Pensacola Pine lumber went out to the whole World!
That is great. My wife’s family has been a large part of Molino for over a hundred years.
I grew up in Molino back in the 50s and sure wish I could be there for this event.
Very nice.
Excellent displays! I hope people will come see a part of our history!