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Breaking News: State commission approves name change for Wentworth museum

   February 5, 2021

Florida Historical Commission approved changing the name of the T.T. Wentworth Museum to the Pensacola Museum of History at the University of West Florida.  The change comes after records were uncovered that revealed T.T. Wentworth was a former cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s – Read “Who Gets to Tell the Story.”

The next steps are an official letter from the State Historic Preservation Officer confirming same. Then UWF Historic Trust forwards that letter to the Internal Improvement Trust Fund.

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