If traveling west on Fort Pickens Road, just after passing Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens Campground is a roadside exhibit featuring gravestones from the former Chasefield Plantation, home of Major William Chase, the military engineer in charge of building Fort Pickens. The plantation used to be where the Pensacola Naval Air Station is today. The tombstones were moved to this location in 1957. However, there is no indication as to whether the bodies were reinterred here as well or if this is just a display of the tombstones (I suspect the former). William Chase’s tombstone is not among them.
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Last updated on April 25, 2022