Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartment Complex

One of America's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller Jr., also expressed his generous spirit by contributing greatly to the African American community in New York City.

Rockefeller financed the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Complex, named after the nineteenth century African American ...

National Historic Landmark - Carters Grove

Constructed 1750-1753, this is an excellent 5-part Georgian country house with a massive, 2-1/2 story rectangular main block, crowned by a hip roof. The interior woodwork is a fine example of work of the period.

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National Historic Landmark - Arthur Foss (tug boat)

Built in 1889, she is the only known wooden-hulled 19th-century tugboat left afloat and in operating condition in the United States. FOSS towed lumber and grain-laden square-rigged ships across the treacherous Columbia River, and hence, was a key participant in ...

National Historic Landmark-Baltimore & Ohio RR Martinsburg Shops

The shops are a unique example of innovative 19th century engineering and industrial architecture. The roundhouse is supported by an early cast-iron framing system devised by renowned railroad engineer and manager, Albert Fink. These shops were also the center of ...

National Historic Landmark-Ringling Bros. Circus Winter Quarters

From 1884 until 1918, these structures served as the winter headquarters for the Ringling Brothers Circus. By 1900, the Ringling Brothers had built their circus into one of the largest on the circuit; in 1907, with the purchase of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Heart Mountain Relocation Center

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center is nationally significant as one of ten relocation centers built by the War Relocation Authority for incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to create restricted zones from which ...

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Sacred Heart Parish was established in the East Hill section of Pensacola in 1905 to meet the growing demand for a Catholic Church in the area. The first church was near completion when it was destroyed by the Hurricane of ...

Old Sacred Heart Hospital

Catholic Driving Tour

Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee

Founded in 1915, Sacred Heart Hospital was the joint effort of a group of local citizens and the Daughters of Charity.

The Daughters of Charity is a religious community of women founded by Elizabeth Bailey Seton ...

National Historic Landmark- Barton Hall

Constructed in the 1840s, this is an unusually sophisticated Greek Revival style plantation house with small Doric entrance and limestone-paved rear courtyard.

The interior contains one of the South's most breathtaking stairways, climbing in a series of double flights and ...

Unearthing Florida- Miami Circle

At the mouth of the Miami River, in the heart of downtown, is an incredible archaeological site, the Miami Circle.

This ancient site was discovered in 1999 doing a survey before new construction. It was something archaeologist Robert Carr had ...