Tabernacle Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1893 as Mount Olive Baptist Church. In 1894, the first public black school in West Palm Beach was organized and held classes in the church through 1896. Built in 1925, this Neo-Romanesque Revival style structure ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - West Palm Beach

Organized by the Rev. Charles Long, Sr. in 1900, St. Paul is the oldest church in Pleasant City. As membership grew, the congregation built a small church and named it Gethsemane. When African American families were forced to move from ...

Northwest Neighborhood Historic District

Bounded by NW 2nd and 11th Streets, North Rosemary and Douglas Avenues.

Local black builders and contractors such as Simeon Mother, R.A. Smith, J.S. Woodside, Alfred Williams and Samuel O. Major constructed most of the buildings in this district. Local architects ...

Hurricane of 1928 Mass Burial Site Historical Marker

On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee, Many of the 1,800 to 3,000 fatalities occurred when the Lake Okeechobee dike collapsed, flooding the populated south ...

The Osborne School

The first black school in Lake Worth, the school building was constructed in 1948, and served that purpose until 1971. The school was constructed by local residents and self-taught builders P.W. Odums, Able Wilson, and Frank Jones. In 1980, the ...

B.F. James and Frances Jane Bright Mini-Park

The park contains a bronze marker commemorating five historic sites in one of the oldest sections of Delray Beach. They are: School No.4 Delray Colored, located on this site; Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 40 NW 4th Avenue; St. ...

National Historic Landmark-East Broad Top Railroad

National Historic Landmark- East Broad Top Railroad

East Broad Top Railroad is a rare surviving example of the once common small gauge railroad companies that served the mining and lumbering industries throughout the nation from the late 19th century to the ...

National Historic Landmark-Carrie Blast Furnace

National Historic Landmark- Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and

Built in 1906-1907, Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and 7 are the only remaining pre-World War II era blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh District, the nation's largest iron and steel production district for much ...

Trinity Presbyterian

Served by ministers from the Bahamas on a quarterly basis until 1895, Trinity English Wesley Methodist Church was then accepted in the St. Jonn's Presbytery, and its name changed to Trinity Presbyterian. Established by both black and white Bahamians, the ...

St. James First Missionary Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1876 by freed blacks from Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida who had come to the Keys to work on Henry Flagler's railroad. Today's masonry building is built around the wood original.

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