The Whitmire Cemetery is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Escambia County, Florida. It offers the Ferry Pass community a burial ground filled with a rich history dating back to the early 20th Century. Although the oldest person is dated to be born in 1787, and the oldest grave stone dated at 1877, prior burials of unmarked graves remain on the property, suggesting the cemetery's use to be dated before the 1900s. On May 1, 1908, Chapman Levy Creighton and his wife Elizabeth deeded five acres to G. Murphy, K.L. Jones, and M.H. Creighton as Trustees of the new cemetery. On February 22, 1908, Daniel Meritt deeded three adjoining acres to the three men to be designated as a cemetery for black citizens.

As such a revolutionary thought at the time, the Creighton family was largely aware of the controversy in placing a black cemetery practically adjoining onto a white section. The Whitmire sits on a plot of land designed to be a cemetery and the segregated sections were not afterthoughts, but prominent features from the very beginning that was important to the Creighton family. Many members of pioneer families to Pensacola are buried at the Whitmire, which offers the Ferry Pass area a significant amount of historic culture, such as the Murphys, Gates, Jamesons, Creightons, Johnsons, Merrits, Jernigans, Harpers, and Whitmires, to name a few.

Many veterans of the Confederate States of America, the Spanish American, WWI and II, Korean and Vietnam wars are also buried at the Whitmire. The United Daughters of the Confederacy place American flags by the Veterans' graves every year for Veteran's Day. Since the cemetery is not affiliated with any church, and it only serves as a community lot, it houses a variety of religious affiliations of the Christian and Jewish nature. Little to no alterations or add-ons have been made to the cemetery since its origin, and whether it is through volunteer work or descendants, it still serves the Ferry Pass community today.