Hardon Building

One of Quincy's earliest ice and electric plants was owned by African American resident William Hardon. Hardon's small generator was located in the rear of the building with the ice plant adjacent to it. The masonry vernacular building, constructed around ...

Eugene Lamb Jr. Recreation Center

The predominantly black town of Midway was incorporated in 1987. After the former school for blacks burned, a city hall building was constructed on this site. Named for Midway native, Mayor Eugene Lamb, Jr., former teacher and coach and visionary ...

Niblack Elementary School

This school was built in 1954 in an effort to consolidate elementary schools serving African American students in Columbia County. Because of her efforts to build, consolidate, and improve schools in the area, the school was named for Minnie Jones ...

Robinson Jenkins Ellerson (R.J.E.) High School

The earliest black school in Bradford County began in a one-room structure on State Road 100 near the Brymer Settlement. When that building burned, the Robinson Jenkins Ellerson structure was built in 1913. Under the direction of three men, the ...

Wabash Hall

During the 1930s, 40s and early 1950s, Lincoln High School held proms and football victory dances on the second floor of Wabash Hall. On the ground floor, sisters Elzora Gill and Fannie Glover and their husbands operated the Glover and ...

Smathers Library

This Library has an extensive collection of documents, photographs and other material related to African American history and culture.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Photo courtesy of www.ppd.ufl.edu/historiccampuswebsite

Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church

One of the oldest congregations in Gainesville, the Shady Grove Primitive Baptist church stands on land deeded to the elders of the church in 1900.

The present coquina block church was built in the Porters neighborhood in the 1930s.

Porters ...

The Old Cotton Club

Located In Gainesville's Springhill neighborhood, the large wood-frame building was first constructed in 1940-41 as the Post Exchange at Camp Blanding in Starke, Florida.

At the end of World War II, the Perryman family purchased the surplus building, moved it ...

Institute of Black Culture

Created in 1971 at the University of Florida, the Institute is home to many historical artifacts and resources related to the African and African American students who have enrolled at the school.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Friendship Baptist Church

Founded in 1892 at 4th Avenue and 6th Street, the church moved to its permanent home here in January of 1897. The first minister was Rev. J. S. Kelsey, who served the church from 1897-1901. The present building was completed ...