Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - St. Petersburg

Built in 1922, the Bethel AME Church is Gothic Revival in style and located in the Jamestown neighborhood northwest of St. Petersburg's downtown core. It is the first and oldest predominantly African American church and denomination in the city, playing ...

Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church

Organized in 1896, this congregation built its first sanctuary, a small wooden structure, on a nearby lot donated by W. I. Porter. The present brick church was dedicated on January 1, 1920, by Pastor C. J. Smith.

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Robert W. Saunders Public Library

The Ybor City Library was renamed in 2003 for Robert W. Saunders, former Field Secretary of the NAACP. Saunders followed in the footsteps of Harry T. Moore who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas night 1951. In ...

The Dr. Walter Smith Library

Dr. Smith is a former President of Florida A & M University and author of The Magnificent Seven and A History of Black Community Colleges in Florida.

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Black History and Art Museum

Located inside the Paradise Missionary Baptist Church, this museum is in the heart of the historic Central Avenue neighborhood once called The Scrubs. The building was constructed in 1891 as the Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church. The museum includes ...

Bing Rooming House

The Bing Rooming House was built in 1926 by Janie and E.L. Bing and operated by Mrs. Bing until 1975. During segregation, this boarding house served as the most prominent hotel for blacks in Plant City, including the visiting Negro ...

Bethlehem Progressive Baptist Church

According to oral histories, Frank Saxton, a white man, built this church in 1861 for his former slaves. By 1869, 15 black Baptist churches in the state formed the Bethlehem Baptist Association. Fort Taylor Cemetery, south of Brooksville, is the ...

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church

Built between 1895 and 1910, this wood frame church is the oldest surviving African American church in Floral City.

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National Historic Landmark-Lubbock Lake Site

National Historic Landmark - Lubbock Lake Site

Discovered in the 1930s, excavations at the site in Yellow House Canyon have revealed a stratified sequence of human habitation spanning 11,000-12,000 years and providing evidence for occupation during Clovis, Folsom, Plainview, Late Paleo-Indian, ...

National Historic Landmark-Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home

National Historic Landmark - Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home

From 1913 to 1920, and again from 1922 to 1930, this small one story frame house was the family home of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), 36th President of the United States (1963-1969).

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