Taylor County Saltworks State Historical Marker

With its 50-mile coastline and shallow coastal waters, Taylor County was a major center for Confederate salt production

during the Civil War. Locations for saltworks in the region included Jonesville (present-day Adams Beach), the mouth of Blue Creek, the Aucilla ...

Suwannee River State Park

About a quarter mile past the ranger station, a high bluff overlooks the spot where the Withlacoochee River joins the Suwannee River on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Vestiges of history in the park show how important the ...

Cedar Key Museum State Park

Picturesque Cedar Key, on Florida's Gulf Coast, was a thriving port city and railroad connection during the 19th century. The museum contains exhibits that depict its colorful history during that era. Part of the collection has sea shells and Indian ...

Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park

Natural Bridge is the site of the second largest Civil War battle in Florida, and where the St. Marks River drops into a sinkhole and flows underground for one-quarter of a mile before reemerging.

In March 1865, a Union force ...

Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail

The first railroad chartered by the Florida territorial government in 1831, the Leon Railway Company becamethe Tallahassee Railroad Company in 1834, and was the first rail line to begin construction in the state. In 1837, the route between Tallahassee and ...

State Archives-Library of Florida/R.A. Gray Building

The Florida Collection in the State Library contains one of the most comprehensive holdings of Floridiana in the state. Books, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, newspaper articles, and periodicals are among the 60,000 items in the collection.

The State Archives of Florida ...

Florida State University Libraries-Strozier Library

The University Libraries' Special Collections Department contains

a variety of manuscript material relating to Florida in the Civil War.

The collections include period letters, diaries, memoirs, family papers, official documents and correspondence, Confederate paper money, and other miscellaneous related items.

Bellevue (Murat House)

Now located at the Tallahassee Museum, the c.1840 Bellevue plantation house was moved in 1967 from its original location on Jackson Bluff Road in Tallahassee. From 1854 until 1867, Bellevue was the home of Catherine Murat, great grandniece of George ...

The Quincy Academy State Historical Marker

A State Historical Marker is located at the building constructed in 1851 to house the Quincy Academy, a private educational institution for children of Gadsden and surrounding counties. During the Civil War, the building was used as a Confederate military ...

Smallwood-White House State Historical Marker

A doubled-sided State Historical Marker for The White House/Pleasants Woodson White contains details on this house which was constructed in 1843 and remodeled to its present appearance in 1856. During the Civil War, this house was the residence of Pleasants ...