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 ...

Finley Homestead (Private)

This two story frame vernacular structure was the home of Adam Finley, a free African American artisan. Finley acquired the property in 1883. His grandson, Dr. Harold E. Finley was a nationally known zoologist.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

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 ...

Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1872 from the Prayer Band started some years earlier by Samuel Irving, Macedonia AME Church was originally located on the corner of Seventh and Beech Streets. The Congregation moved into its newly built sanctuary in 1899. The bell ...

Old Stanton High School (Private)

The Trustees of Florida Institute established Stanton High School in 1868 as the first public black school in Jacksonville. It was named for Edwin M. Stanton, an outspoken abolitionist and Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln. This masonry vernacular-style structure, ...

National Historic Landmark-Rudyard Kipling Home

National Historical Landmarks-Naulakha-Rudyard Kipling House

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907), had this house and outbuildings built for his American bride.

Despite their brief residence in the house(1893-1896), Kipling wrote several ...

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 ...

National Historic Landmark-Mount Independence

National Historical Landmarks-Mount Independence

This site, on Lake Champlain opposite Fort Ticonderoga, was fortified by Colonial troops in 1776 to prevent the British from penetrating to the Hudson River through the Champlain Valley.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

Photo http://www.historicvermont.org/mountindependence/trail_dedication.htm

Woodland Park

Woodland Park was located near the city of Sanford on the shores of Lake Monroe. It was run by owner Victor Schmelz and his son from 1910 to the 1920s. In 1909, Schmelz installed an eighty by thirty foot swimming ...