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Cary A. White, Sr. Complex, FL School for the Deaf and the Blind
This classroom and dormitory area is dedicated to the memo...
Butler Beach
In 1927, Lincolnville businessman Frank B. Butler bought l...
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Palatka
The residents of the community of Newtown organized the Be...
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church
The traditional site for free Blacks, Indians, Spanish Ind...
American Beach
The American Beach historic district is at the south end o...
Susie Tolbert House
This house on the Edward Waters College campus is named fo...
Old Jacksonville Beach Elementary School
Mother Rhoda Martin founded the Jacksonville Beach Element...
National Historic Landmark-Ticonderoga (Steamboat)
National Historical Landmark- TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-whe...
National Historic Landmark-St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
National Historical Landmarks- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
...National Historic Landmark-Shelburne Farms
National Historical Landmarks- Shelburne Farms
One o...
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Cary A. White, Sr. Complex, FL School for the Deaf and the Blind
This classroom and dormitory area is dedicated to the memory of the first African American deaf graduate of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. Cary A. White, Sr. worked at the school for 46 years and was ...
Butler Beach
In 1927, Lincolnville businessman Frank B. Butler bought land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Matanzas River, which he developed into Butler Beach. For many years this was the only beach that African Americans were allowed to use between Jacksonville ...
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Palatka
The residents of the community of Newtown organized the Bethel AME church in 1866. This Romanesque Revival style building was constructed by the congregation circa 1908-1912.
Information provided by Florida Department of State.
Photo courtesy of Fish Ministries.
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church
The traditional site for free Blacks, Indians, Spanish Indians and Mulattoes, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church served as the rallying place for the African American community in Nassau County. The original church was built in 1870, burned in 1920 and ...
American Beach
The American Beach historic district is at the south end of Amelia Island. In 1935, A.L. Lewis, president of The Pension Bureau of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company bought 33 acres of oceanfront property. Company employees were invited to use ...
Susie Tolbert House
This house on the Edward Waters College campus is named for Susie Ella Middelton Tolbert. Born in Chicago, Mrs. Tolbert made her home in Jacksonville and pursued her life's work there. The mother of seven developed the Willing Workers Club ...
Old Jacksonville Beach Elementary School
Mother Rhoda Martin founded the Jacksonville Beach Elementary School for Colored People. In 1939 the county built a four-room brick school structure, which also served as a community center, well-baby clinic and recreational area for the community. The building was ...
National Historic Landmark-Ticonderoga (Steamboat)
National Historical Landmark- TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat)
Only extant and basically unchanged side-paddle-wheel lakeboat in the U.S. Used as a Lake Champlain excursion boat from 1906 to 1953.
National Historic Landmark-St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
National Historical Landmarks- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
The Athenanaeum's construction (1868-1873), its collection of American landscape paintings and books, its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and the industrial origins of the fortune that provided it, all contribute ...
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 ...