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:

Join us next season for our monthly Table Talks at the Trust!

September 16: Dr. Chris Levesque, Crafting a Reprint: Pensacola in Pictures and Prints Anniversary Edition

For more information, please email hparchives@uwf.edu or call 850-595-5985 x125. 

Sweet Tea Murders LIVE: An Evening of Pensacola Crime Stories

Join Michael Earl Simmons, Southern Crime Historian and Storyteller, and the UWF Historic Trust for Sweet Tea Murders LIVE: An Evening of Pensacola Crimes Stories 

Evening includes complimentary Sweet Tea Murders mason jar of Southern sweet tea to enjoy as you listen to the stories of Pensacola's criminal past with former Homicide Detective Michael Earl Simmons. Doors open at 5:30 and the storytelling begins at 6:00! Evening is adults only due to themes of stories.

• UWF Historic Trust Members: $30 (emailed to members each month)
• General Public:  $35

Purchase tickets at Sweet Tea Murders LIVE. Ticket purchase helps support the mission of the UWF Historic Trust. 

In August,  long before the Wild West became the stuff of movies and legends, John Wesley Hardin had already carved his name into history. Wanted for murder and relentlessly pursued by Texas lawmen, Hardin fled with his family, assumed another name, and attempted to disappear right in our very midst – along the Alabama–Florida border. But his past was following close behind. Told in the distinctive Sweet Tea Murders style, this carefully researched presentation separates the documented history from the legend while following the outlaws, lawmen, and local residents caught in the path of one of the Old West’s most notorious gunfighters.

Schedule:

Please note the Location for each of the Sweet Tea Murders LIVE experiences: 

• Thursday, August 27: John Wesley Hardin: The Outlaw Who Came to Pensacola, Voices of Pensacola
• Thursday, September 10: Hank Killam The Dead Man Who Knew Too Much, Voices of Pensacola
• Friday, September 11: The Cruel Murder of Charles Sudmall, Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site, Milton, Florida
• Thursday, November 12: Ted Bundy in Pensacola: Wrong Town, Wrong Time, Museum of Commerce

Dead Man's Chest: A Murder Mystery Dinner

Friday, September 18 

Museum of Industry, 200 East Zaragoza Street

$65/per person for dinner, drinks, and show

$60/members for dinner, drinks, and show

Ahoy Matey! ICMT Murder Mystery Company is back at the Museum of Industry for a night of Yo Ho Ho pirate themed murder. Join us as we batten down the hatches for an Arrr!-esting murder mystery.

What's the Scuttlebutt? The doors open at 5:30 and the show begins at 6:00 p.m. Don't be a scallywag, come dressed in your best pirate attire. 

Can you figure out whose going to Davy Jones's Locker and who put them there?

If you win, you get the pirate booty!

Purchase your tickets today!
Adults 21+ only event
$65/per person
$60/UWF Historic Trust Members

36th Annual Haunted House Walking and Trolley Tours

October 2, 3, 9, 10, 23 and 24

TICKETS ON SALE: September 1

This year we are kicking off our haunted history tours with our Tormented Trolley Tours on Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 3 followed by two weekends of haunted walking tours!

This year, once again, we are going to step into our haunted stories on our walking tours....

Tormented Trolley Tours: October 2 and 3

6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.

Tour through Pensacola's haunted North Hill on the Tormented Trolley. Tours do not exit the trolley. *Trolleys are not accessible. Limited to 28 people each session

Walking Tours: October 9, 10, 23, and 24

• Macabre Museum Mysteries Walking Tour explores the haunted history of the Arbona Building and the old City Hall. Hear the laughing children, see the shadow man, or feel the ghostly caress while touring these sites.
• Haunted History: Village explores 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

See our Haunted Happenings for more information and tickets.

Talking To the Dead: The Victorian Séance

October 30 and October 31, 2026

The Barkley House

$35.00/per person

Limit 8 people a session

TICKETS ON SALE: September 1

Buy Tickets!

Historic Pensacola invites you to our Talking to the Dead: The Victorian Séance on Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31, 2026. 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.