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Unearthing Florida- Emanuel Point Ship Wreck #1

In shallow water near downtown Pensacola lies the second oldest shipwreck ever found in US waters.

It was part of the 1559 Luna Expedition. Tristan de Luna was a conquistador ad governor charged with establishing the first Spanish settlement north ...

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Saint Joseph Catholic Parish and School

Originally part of St. Michael's Parish, St. Joseph's School for Creoles and St. Joseph's School for the Colored opened in 1877.

In the late 1880s, Mrs. Mercedes Sunday Ruby, petitioned Bishop Jeremiah O'Sullivan of the Mobile Diocese to establish a ...

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Saint Stephen's School and Parish

Saint Stephen Catholic Church and Parish was founded in 1922. As a part of its commitment to Catholic Education, the parish opened a school in 1934, serving about 150 students. Benedictine Sisters from Cullman, Alabama, ran and taught at the ...

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Little Flower Parish and School

Little Flower Parish and School located in the Myrtle Grove area of West Pensacola, was founded in 1945 and 1946 respectively-- the latter by four Dominican Sisters from New York. Converted Old World War II barracks served as the original ...

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Old Sacred Heart Hospital

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 in 1633 dedicated to caring ...

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Pentagon

The Pentagon covers 34 acres of land, however a person can move from one office to another in six minutes.

The unique, five sided building houses over 25,000 employees and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It ...

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Fort Rupert

Fort Rupert was the first trading post established by the Hudson Bay Company in North America.

Originally chartered in 1670 as the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England" the company acted as the provisional government of most of colonial Canada ...

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Old Brewster Hospital

Built in 1855, this Victorian style residence was sold in 1901 to the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.

Here, the Missionary Society established the first Jacksonville hospital for blacks and the first training facility for black nurses. ...

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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Jacksonville

After the Civil War, several dozen freedmen formed the Society for Religious Worship and were formally recognized in 1866 as the Mount Zion AME Church. A 1901 fire destroyed their brick sanctuary which seated 1,500 worshippers. Within months the church ...

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Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church

Designed and built by Jacksonville's first black architect Richard L. Brown, this 1922 church reflects his eclectic style.

Built of concrete block, textured on the upper stories to simulate quarry stone, the church includes a large portico at the main ...

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