Editing Gonzalez, Florida (section)

==History==
The village of Gonzalez has also been called Gonzalia, named after the Gonzalez family who owned a farm in the area. Manuel Gonzalez, the patriarch of the family, was originally from Spain. He had arrived in the New World sometime around 1790. He served as an Indian Agent under [[Francisco Bouligny]] in New Orleans, before eventually arriving in Pensacola.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Leonora |title=A Life Sketch of Don Manuel Gonzalez, of Florida. A.D. 1767-1838 |journal=Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia |date=March 1903 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=28–32 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44208909 |access-date=3 February 2023}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War]], Gonzalez was home to a Confederate storage facility run by Manuel Gonzalez’s son, Samuel Z. Gonzalez.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pearce |first1=George F. |title=Pensacola during the Civil War : a thorn in the side of the Confederacy |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville, FL |isbn=9780813017709 |page=77}}</ref> The Gonzalez farm was also the location of a military skirmish between Union forces headquartered out of [[Fort Barrancas]] and Confederate troops.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Sharon D. |title=The 1st Florida Union Cavalry Volunteers in the Civil War : the men and the regimental history, and what that tells us about the area during the war |date=2016 |isbn=9780692793589 |edition=1st|page=29}}</ref>