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The Plaza Ferdinand VII is an outdoor Garden and Park in the Historic District of Pensacola, Florida . It is located on Palafox Street between Government and Zaragosa Streets. It was named after Ferdinand VII Of Spain , the King Of Spain between 1813 and 1833 . HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE The cession of Florida to the United States from Spain occurred at the Plaza on July 17 , 1821 . General Andrew Jackson made a public speech to townspeople, informing them that the land was now the Florida Territory , and that Pensacola would be its capital. General Jackson was later sworn in as first Territorial Governor in the plaza. A bust of Jackson now stands at the spot where he was inaugurated. The Plaza was listed for consideration on the National Register Of Historic Places in 1960 , achieving the status of Historic Place in 1966 . Archaeologists, in 2002 , discovered evidence of British structures previously not known to have existed in that area. |
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