Editing Warrington, Florida (section)

==History==
Warrington is named for [[Lewis Warrington (United States Navy officer)|Lewis Warrington]], who served as [[Secretary of the Navy]], and who helped choose the area that became [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]]. He served as the first commandant of the newly created Navy Yard, 1826–1827.

Warrington was created shortly after the Pensacola Navy Yard's 1826 foundation.  Commodore [[Melancthon Taylor Woolsey]], the second commandant of the Navy Yard (1827–1831),<ref name="Cyclopaedia">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dsDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22melancthon+taylor+woolsey%22&pg=RA1-PA99|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|first=James Terry|last=White|date=7 October 1898|publisher=J. T. White Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> "created two villages, Warrington,  and [[Woolsey, Florida|Woolsey]] outside the navy yard for homebuilding."<ref>Johnson, Jane, "Santa Rosa Island – A History (Part 2)", page 3.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navarrepass.com/graphics/SRI_history.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306125537/http://www.navarrepass.com/graphics/SRI_history.pdf |archive-date=2015-03-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Warrington was between the yard and [[Fort Barrancas]]. The town was relocated north of Bayou Grande in the 1930s to make additional space available for the expanding Naval Air Station.