There is a monument and a sign here proclamining Pensacola as home to the Blue Angels, but other than the destroyer anchor in the fountain there is no reference to the history of Warrington or the Navy Base.
The town of Warrington was named for Captain Lewis Warrington. 
During the War of 1812, Captain Warrington was the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and a gold hilted sword from his home state of Virginia. As Captain of the sloop USS Peacock he engaged and captured the British brig HMS Epervier off Cape Canaveral on April 29, 1814 in a 42 minute naval battle. Although both ships were equal in strength, the Peacock inflicted ten times more damage on the Epervier than it received. The Epervier had been carrying $118,000 in gold and silver when it was captured.
Later in his career, 1821-1824, Captain Warrington served as Commandant of the navy yard at Norfolk. In 1825 Warrington was one of three Navy Captains who were picked by President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard to locate a site for a Navy Yard in Pensacola. After it was built, Warrington served as the first commandant of the "Warrington Navy Yard" in 1826. From 1832-1839 he was once again head of the Norfolk Navy Yard, and In 1844 Commodore Warrington served as interim Secretary of the Navy.
The town of Warrington was one of two villages that spang up directly outside the 80 acre Warrington Navy Yard. On November 25 1861 the Confederate villages of Warrington and Woolsey were heavy damaged by Union cannon fire from Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island which remained in Union control during the Civil War. 
In 1914 the Warrington Navy Yard was renamed Pensacola Naval Air Station. Later, in 1930 the town of Warrington was relocated to its present location across Bayou Grande outside the naval base.
During the 20th Century three US destroyers were commissioned as the USS Warrington.
The first, (DD-30), was commissioned in March 1911 and served during World War I. She was later decommissioned at Philadelphia in January 1920 and was broken up for and sold for scrap in June 1935.
The second Warrington (DD-383) was launched in May 1937 and earned two battle stars in the Pacific during World War II. DD-383 foundered in a hurricane off the Bahamas on September 13, 1944.
The third Warrington (DD-843) was launched in September 1946 and earned two battle stars during the Vietnam War. 
DD-843 hit a mine in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 17, 1972 and was towed to Subic Bay in the Phillipines. The USS Warrington was deemed unfit for further naval service and was eventually decommissioned. In 1973 she was sold to the Taiwanese Navy for cannibalization and scrapping.