National Historic Landmark-Rokeby

National Historical Landmarks-Rokeby

Rokeby, a Robinson family farmstead for four generations, is significant for its role in the Underground Railroad. Rare surviving documentation that the Robinson family kept attests to its use as a stop, and provides accurate insights into an ...

National Historic Landmark-Robbins & Lawrence Armory & Machine

National Historical Landmarks-Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop

Erected in 1846, the Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop is an excellent example of 19h century American industrial architecture.

During the 1840s and 1850s the company designed and manufactured ...

National Historic Landmark-Marsh-Billings Historical Park

National Historical Landmarks-George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home

Built in 1805 by his father, this was Marsh's home until he left for Dartmouth College in 1816. Marsh, a lawyer, philologist, and diplomat, made a significant contribution to the conservation movement in America ...

Steamboats and Sanford

The marker "Steamboats" is located near the modern day Sanford docks and waterfront. Steamboats began appearing on the St. Johns River around 1840 and reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. It was near here that many nineteenth century ...

Gabriella

Gabriella was a small farming community located between the towns of Jamestown and Goldenrod, on modern day state road 426. The community contained a post office, a general store, and a one room school house, none of which remain today. ...

Captain Richard Bradford State Historical Marker

In March 1861, 15 days before Confederate batteries began firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, Richard Bradford enlisted in the Confederate army at Madison. Less than seven months later, Bradford became the first Confederate officer from Florida to die ...

Florida Monument-Gettysburg

At the Battle of Gettysburg, the Florida Brigade (comprised of the 2nd, 5th, and 8th Florida Infantry Regiments), under the command of Colonel David Lang, participated in the heaviest fighting of July 2 and 3, 1863, including an advance in ...

Florida Monument- Vicksburg

Erected by the Florida Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1954, the Florida Monument is located on former national park property, which was later deeded back to the City of Vicksburg.

This granite monolith monument commemorates the ...

Woodlawn Cemetery - West Palm Beach

In a roundabout at its center, this cemetery contains a Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1941.

Also buried in this cemetery are approximately 30 Union veterans, including Willmon Whilldin of the 6th New Jersey ...

U.S. Naval Base Key West

The U.S. Navy first established a naval base at Key West in 1823 for the suppression of piracy in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

During the Civil War, Key West was the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's ...