- Cantonment, Florida
Cantonment, Florida (pronounced Can-TONE-ment) is a suburb approximately convert|10|mi|km north of downtown
Pensacola, Florida . Most of the people who live in Cantonment commute to either Pensacola or thePace, Florida andMilton, Florida areas for employment. The two largest employers areInternational Paper andSolutia . Schools includeJ. M. Tate High School , Ransom Middle School, [http://www.jimallen.org/ Jim Allen Elementary School] , and Pine Meadow Elementary School. The oldest cemetery is Old Muscogee Cemetery on River Annex Road. In September 2006, the Pensacola News Journal newspaper announced a predicted explosion of growth in Cantonment due to a planned 4,000+ acre housing development. The Pensacola News Journal quoted officials as saying the infrastructure of this new massive development will be like "adding another city" to Pensacola.Cantonment is in Escambia County, in the
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area .In 1814
Andrew Jackson camped his troops in what is now the Cantonment area, thus leading to the name of the area.The latitude of Cantonment is 30.608N. The longitude is -87.34W.It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is convert|148|ft|m.
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