Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Home to one of the oldest and most prominent black congregations of South Florida, this structure is noted for its Mediterranean Revival design. The Mt. Zion congregation helped raise funds to build Miami's black-owned Christian Hospital.

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Lincoln Memorial Park

Lincoln Memorial, opened in 1924 in the Brownsville section of Miami, was for decades the black cemetery in Miami. Blacks sometimes marched to Lincoln Memorial playing tubas and trumpets in Dixieland funeral processions. Most of the 538 burial plots are ...

Hampton House

Not currently open to the public.

Built in 1953 and originally named Booker Terrace, the two story Hampton House was promoted as the social center of the South. The hotel had 20 rooms, a swimming pool, patio, restaurant and night club. ...

National Historic Landmark-Bedford Springs Historic District

National Historical Landmark-Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District

The Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District is significant as one of the nation's finest remaining examples of the mineral springs resort phenomenon of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Courtesy National Park Service National ...

Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park and Museum

Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore were murdered in their home in Mims when a bomb exploded under their bedroom on Christmas night, 1951--their 25th wedding anniversary. It was the first killing of a prominent civil rights leader, and is ...

National Historic Landmark-American Philosophical Society Hall

National Historical Landmark- American Philosophical Society Hall

Since 1789 this two-story late-Georgian brick building has housed the fortnightly meetings of one of America's oldest and most honorable learned societies.

The organization traces its origins to 1743, when Benjamin Franklin publicly urged ...

National Historic Landmark-Allegheny Portage Railroad

National Historical Landmark- Allegheny Portage Railroad of the Pennsylvania Canal

This first railroad over the Allegheny Mountains operated from 1834 to 1854 and was considered a technological marvel of its time.

An inclined plane, it carried canal boats over a 36-mile ...

Chapman House

Confederate Father and Son

This is the Chapman House, built in 1803 and the home of one of Union’s most prominent families. Augustus A. Chapman and his son, George Beirne Chapman, both served the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Augustus Chapman, ...

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Situated on the southern tip of Key Biscayne, Cape Florida was the point from which many black Seminoles and escaped slaves sought passage south to the Bahamas when Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821. Those ...

Stirrup House (Private)

Ebenezer W.F. Stirrup, a Bahamian who came to the United States in 1888, built this two-story frame vernacular structure in 1897. Stirrup invested his earnings in land and built over 100 homes to rent or sell to other Bahamian blacks ...