Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is the oldest surviving structure in Palm Beach County. Designed by Lieutenant George Gordon Meade, who would later command the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg, it was completed and lit on July 10, 1860, ...

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

Sited to protect the strategic harbor at Key West, construction of Fort Zachary Taylor began in 1845 some 1,200 feet offshore from the city. After Florida seceded from the Union in January 1861, U.S. Army Captain James Brannan moved his ...

Cape Florida Lighthouse

To protect shipping in the hazardous Straits of Florida, Congress authorized the construction of the Cape Florida Lighthouse in 1822. The first lighting occurred on December 17, 1825. In July 1836, an Indian attack in the early months of the ...

Gamble Plantation

Major Robert Gamble began a 3,500-acre sugar plantation on this site in 1844, and constructed the Gamble Mansion and a sugar mill of brick and tabby between 1845 and 1856. The Gamble family sold the plantation in 1858, and in ...

Monument to Colored Troops

Installed in 2000, the Civil War’s 2nd Regiment Infantry, U. S. Colored Troops monument is dedicated to the black Union soldiers who defended the Federal post at Fort Myers against the Confederate attack in February 1865.

A single black soldier standing ...

Fort Thompson State Historical Marker

A State Historical Marker is located at the site of Fort Thompson, which was constructed in the late 1830s on the Caloosahatchee River for use as a military supply post during the Second Seminole War. During the Civil War, the ...

Greenwood Cemetery - St. Petersburg

Often called the Veteran's Cemetery due to the number of Civil War soldiers and sailors buried here, this cemetery contains the remains of at least 100 Confederate and Union veterans.

In 1900, two monuments were constructed at the center of the ...

Blockade Runners & Battle of Ballast Point Historical Markers

A City Historical Marker for Union Raiders Burn Tampa Blockade Runners and a County Historical Marker for Battlefield tell the story of the Hillsborough River Raid and the ensuing Battle of Ballast Point. In October 1863, as the Union vessels ...

Fort Brooke Battery University of Tampa

Mounted in Plant Park are two Civil War 24-pounder cannons, which were originally part of a Confederate battery at Fort Brooke. In 1891, while constructing the Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry B. Plant had the cannons salvaged from the Fort Brooke ...

Confederate Monument - Tampa

Originally located on the grounds of the Old Hillsborough County Courthouse, the monument was erected in 1911 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

In 1952, the monument was moved to its current location upon the completion of the new courthouse ...