National Historic Landmark-Stellafane

National Historical Landmark- Stellafane Observatory

Stellafane Observatory played a pioneering role in the development of amateur telescope making and popular astronomy in the United States.

The site contains the original clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc. (1924), and the first large ...

National Historic Landmark-Shelburne Farms

National Historical Landmarks- Shelburne Farms

One of the many estate properties built for wealthy American industrialists during the Gilded Age period, Shelburne Farms was considered an ideal country place for its exemplary model stock farm and horse breeding service, architectural and ...

Steamboats and Sanford

The marker "Steamboats" is located near the modern day Sanford docks and waterfront. Steamboats began appearing on the St. Johns River around 1840 and reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. It was near here that many nineteenth century ...

Sanford Residential Historic District

The Sanford Residential Historic District contains buildings that date from the 1880s to the 1930s, when Sanford was a prominent agricultural and transportation center. While the district consists primarily of residential houses, there are also some commercial buildings, such as ...

Naval Air Station Stanford Memorial Park

The Naval Air Station at Sanford was opened in 1942 during World War II and trained an estimated 50 percent of naval fighter and bomber pilots during the war. It was decommissioned in 1946, following the end of the war. ...

Florida Land and Colonization Company

The Florida Land and Colonization Company was located in Sanford, Florida in Seminole County. The Company was established by Henry Sanford in 1880, who hoped to use the Company to help sell and develop his land holdings in Florida. The ...

Union Yellow Fever Monument - Key West

Located in Bayview Park, the monument was erected by the State of New York following the Civil War, in memory of the men of the 90th and 91st New York Infantry who perished in Key West in 1862, mainly from ...

Florida Monument - Chickamauga

Fought on September 19-20, 1863, the Battle of Chickamauga was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, with nearly 35,000 Union and Confederate casualties

Seven Florida units participated in the battle and suffered over 550 dead, wounded, missing, ...

Sgt. Clifford Chester Sims

SSgt Clifford C. Sims served his country during its time of need and made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms of this nation. Sims was born on June 18, 1942 in Port St. Joe, FL. In 1955, James and ...

Rear Admiral John H. Fetterman, Jr.

Admiral John H. Fetterman, Jr., known to his family and friends as Jack, dedicated his life to public service, from his career as a naval aviator to his time as a civic and community leader. A native of Ashland, Pennsylvania, ...