NAS Library
Pensacola, Florida
Brockington and Associates provides archaeological and cultural resource management services to Naval Air Station Pensacola. In previous years, excavations included the lighthouse keeper's residence, War of 1812 and Civil War sites, and a Native American mound complex. In 2003, we had the opportunity to help NAS Pensacola showcase cultural resources on their property by installing a series of artifact and interpretative displays at the new Post Library.
The library has four table-style cases and three tower cases built and installed to coordinate with the craftsman-style interior design. Brockington and Associates used our familiarity with the NAS Pensacola artifact collections to select materials for display and interpretation. The displays include household goods, tools, buttons, military accouterments, and children's toys associated with the nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper's family, the Victorian village of Woolsey, and 300 years of military history in Pensacola.
The three tower cases showcase the wonderful collection of beverage, medicinal, and food bottles recovered from various archaeological sites across the Naval Air Station. Today our displays are popular with both patrons and visitors to the library. Not only do they inform and educate, they are an attractive addition to the library décor.