Eastside Neighborhood lies within Pensacola's East King Tract. The East King Tract was one of several Spanish land grants awarded to private citizens in the Americas by the King of Spain in the late 1800's. The Eastside Neighborhood became racially integrated in the early 1940's. During this period, many of Pensacola's prominent African Americans, no longer restricted by Jim Crow laws to living in the neighborhoods on Pensacola's west side, relocated to the east. Eastside neighborhood has been home to many prominent African American citizens. Pastors, doctors, dentists, principals, teachers, tailors, blacksmiths and mid-wives are a few of the professions of previous Eastside residents. Baseball players with the famed Negro League also resided here. The Eastside Neighborhood Improvement Association has proposed the establishment of an African American history trail to document the history and contributions of early African Americans in the Eastside area. Some of the proposed sites to be identified by this heritage trail are: the homestead of General Daniel Chappie James, the Air Force’s first black four-star general; Magee Field, a ball park named after one of Pensacola’s first black physicians, Dr. A.S. Magee; the home built by Dr. A.S. Magee in 1917 located on Eighth Avenue and Blount Street; E.S. Cobb Center named after another African American Physician, Dr. E.S. Cobb; H&O Café, one of the first black owned restaurants in the Pensacola area owned by Hamp and Ola Lee. The African American history trail will document the contributions of prominent African American citizens of the Eastside Neighborhood in the early 1900’s. The home pictured above is the home of Dr. J. Lee Pickens and his wife, former principal of the J. Lee Pickens School. This home is located at 1422 North Davis Highway on the corner of Davis and Blount.