History of Perdido Key, Florida
On the panhandle of Florida, at the boundary line between Florida and Alabama, neighboring the city of Pensacola, Perdido Key is a barrier island, where nature is not only mysterious and beautiful, but is sensitive with synergistic ecosystems and the time and tide existence of this shape-shifting island. The history of how the name of this island became Perdido began when the Spanish and French explorers settled in the 17th century. Explorers heard of a mysterious bay, but didn't find it, until a cartographer, named Don Carlos Siquenza, was sent by the Spanish government. Even though he found the bay's entrance, he could not find waters deep enough to sail through. The story goes that Siquenza's ship was blown off course. An Indian chief guided Siquenza's lost ship to the bay. And after finding the bay, he named it Perdido, meaning "lost" or "hidden". Perdido Key, Florida, did not become an island until 1933. Before, it was a peninsula west of Pensacola. Perdido Key is unincorporated and lies in the most western county of Florida, Escambia County, which has a population of 296,772 residents, as of 2005 US Census Bureau estimates.
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