Old Absinthe House

This commercial building was constructed in 1806 by Pedro Front and Francisco Juncadelia, immigrants from Barcelona Spain. These brothers operated the building as a storefront for their trade business for the next 40 years.

Local legend states that the second floor ...

National Historic Landmark - The Cabildo

The Cabildo stands adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral and was the headquarters for the Spanish Colonial Council, or Cabildo.

The original structure was destroyed during the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, during which over 75% of the buildings in the ...

Daytona Beach Road Course

The Daytona Beach Road Course is one of the most historic raceways in America. Although long ago replaced by the Daytona International Speedway, the original site of local stock-car racing was critical to the modern development of NASCAR.

Designed by local ...

Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church

The Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church was organized in 1866 by blacks that left the First Baptist Church.

This 1916 building is an excellent example of Gothic Revival architecture designed by Wallace A. Rayfield, a leading African American architect in ...

New Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Bagdad Museum Complex)

This church is among the oldest in Santa Rosa County. Carpenters who were sons of the pastor, the Rev. John Kelker, Sr., built the original church.

The current wood frame vernacular structure was built in 1901. Moved to its present ...

Mount Zion Baptist Church

The second oldest African American Baptist church in Pensacola, the congregation was organized in August 1880 after a break with John the Baptist Church. The present Romanesque Revival style structure was erected in 1918, after the original building was destroyed ...

Elizabeth Weid-St Michael's Cemetery

Elizabeth Weid (1811-1866), born Elizabeth Rucheimer in Bavaria, Germany, her husband Johann George Weid, a stone mason, and five of their six children arrived at New Orleans in May of 1853 aboard the ship Auguste.

The family left Bremen, Germany ...

John the Baptist Church

Established in 1847 as the first black church in Pensacola, John the Baptist Church is the only surviving evidence of Hawk Shaw, an African American community.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Massalina Bayou

African American Spanish fisherman Josea Massalina was founder of Red Fish Point, a small community on what is now Tyndall Air Force Base. The community moved across the bay, settling along the Bayou now named for the Massatina family. Massalina's ...

Jupiter Inlet Historic and Archaeological Site, Dubois Park

Dubois Park contains the remains of a village occupied by the Jobe and their predecessors from 1,000 years ago.

The shell midden, or trash pile, from the village site is 20 feet high. Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant whose family ...