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-Eastern State Penitentiary

National Historic Landmark- Eastern State Penitentiary

Constructed between 1823-1836 from a design by noted American architect John Haviland, this massive Gothic Revival structure epitomized the Pennsylvania System of imprisonment, a system grounded in the Quaker concept of reflection through solitary confinement ...

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-Edward Drinker Cope House

National Historic Landmark-Edward Drinker Cope House

From 1880 until his death, this was the residence of Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), one of America's most prolific and creative 19th-century geologists and paleontologists.

He wrote some 1,300 titles, and his entry in the ...

National Historic Landmark-Christ Church-Philadelphia

National Historic Landmark-Christ Church Philadelphia

Constructed between 1727 and 1754, the present ornate Georgian structure, used by a congregation organized in 1695, is the third building on the site.

Its most striking exterior features are a Palladian window and Doric ...

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

Erected in 1770-71 as a guild hall for the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, this is a fine example of late Georgian public architecture.

The building served as a meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774, ...

Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...

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. Peter's Episcopal Church

St. Peter's is the oldest black Anglican Church in the Diocese of South Florida. It was designed and built in 1923 by Joseph Hannibal, a Key West native and son of Shadrack Hannibal, a runaway slave.

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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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