Calendar of Events
Table Talks at the Trust
Join us for a monthly lunch and learn series!
Program is free--just bring your lunch and enjoy a casual opportunity to learn about a variety of topics!
Table Talks at the Trust is held the third Wednesday of each month during the Fall and Winter, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center located at 117 E. Government Street
Speaker Schedule:
The 2025 Speaker List is released! Topics coming soon...
- September 17: The War of 1812 on the Gulf Coast, Phillip Mayhair, UWF Historic Trust Education and Interpretation Supervisor
- October 15: Dr. Katherine Miller Wolf, UWF Department of Anthropology Associate Professor
- November 19: Jennifer Brinkley, UWF Legal Studies Pre-Law Program Associate Professor
- January 21: Dr. John Bratten, UWF Department of Anthropology Professor
- February 18: Margo Stringfield, UWF Archaeology Institute
- March 18: Mike Thomin, Florida Public Archaeology Network Director of Education and Interpretation
- April 15: Amy Mitchell-Cook, UWF Department of History and Philosophy Professor
- May 20: tbd
For more information, please email hparchives@uwf.edu or call 850-595-5985 x125.
PCM Pop Up Programs
With the Pensacola Children's Museum closed for renovations, our Playologist Haley has created PCM Pop Up Programs to be held throughout our museum complex. The PCM Pop Up Programs will be at 11:00 at select locations and dates. *Programs are included with admission to the museums.
- Friday, August 22: Observational Drawing at the Pensacola Museum of History*
- Friday, August 29: Comic Book Creation at the John Appleyard Storytelling Cottage*
35th Annual Haunted House Walking and Trolley Tours: A New Era!
Walking Tours: Friday & Saturday, October 10 & 11, 2025
Trolley Tours: Friday & Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2025
TICKETS ON SALE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025
This year we are doing something a little different. After 34 years, we are going to go inside to share our haunted history. We have never allowed our haunted tours into our museums, but this year, we are going to step into our stories....
Two walking tour routes to choose from on Friday and Saturday, October 10 & 11:
- Haunted History: Museums will explore the haunted history of the Arbona Building and the old City Hall
- Haunted History: Village will explore the haunted history of the Dorr House, Old Christ Church, and the Lear/Rocheblave House *Please note, the Haunted History: Village Walking Tour is not accessible as there are several sets of stairs into/inside these historic houses
The Trolley of the Night trolley tour will be on Friday and Saturday, October 24 & 25
See our Haunted Happenings for more information and tickets.
Simpson Homestead
Spirits of the Simpson House
Saturday, October 18, 2025
6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.
Simpson Homestead at Arcadia Mill, Milton, FL
Adults 15+: $20.00
Children 3-15: $15.00
Children under 3: Free
Limited to 15 people each session
Tickets on sale: Tuesday, September 2
Join us for a spooky evening of history and hauntings at the Arcadia Homestead site at 4755 Anna Simpson Road in Milton. This year there will be so much more! Guests will be given a guided tour of the historic Simpson House to learn more about the Simpson family and life in the 1930’s. Enjoy campfire stories and smores around the campfire. Take a stroll amongst the grounds. Maybe, just maybe, you will encounter a ghostly skirmish.
There will be a place to capture the haunted evening with a photo. A few refreshments to keep your spirits up and an evening of haunted history.
victorian seance
Talking To the Dead: The Victorian Séance
October 31 & November 1, 2025
The Barkley House
$35.00/per person
Limit 8 people a session
TICKETS ON SALE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
Historic Pensacola invites you to our Talking to the Dead: The Victorian Séance on Friday and Saturday, October 31 & November 1, 2025. Learn about the fascination, history and theatrics of spiritualism and the Victorian séance. Our living history department will share the origins of All Hallows Eve and the rise of spiritualism in the Victorian era and demonstrate the theatrics common in a Victorian séance. For more information, contact Wendi Davis at wdavis4@uwf.edu.