The building of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, completed in 1883, finally linked Pensacola and the Panhandle solidly with the rest of the state and ended the region's isolation, although from time to time during the twentieth century there were still occasional calls for annexation that generated some public discussion but no legislative action.
A construción do Ferrocarril Atlántico e de Pensacola, rematado en 1883, finalmente uniu Pensacola e a Franxa solidamente co resto do Estado e acabou co seu tradicional illamento, aínda que de cando en vez durante o século XX houbo ocasionais chamadas á anexión que xeraron algún debate público, pero ningunha acción lexislativa.