Carver-Hill Museum and Fairview Park Complex

The Okaloosa Negro Civic Club established a neighborhood park in the early 1950s. When a new school was built in 1954, Carver-Hill, the old one-room frame lunchroom building was given to the Civic Club by the Okaloosa County School Board.

Renaissance Park

About 8.5 miles northeast of downtown Marianna, this 40-acre wildemess park is filled with artifacts and objects reminiscent of early rural farm life.

Each year in September and December, a community festival takes place as African American tradition bearers demonstrate ...

St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church

On land purchased in 1866, a small wooden structure served as the St. Paul's AME Church for 74 years.

The building of a second, larger wooden structure led to the church as it exists today. The current sanctuary was constructed ...

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 ...

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.

Arch Creek Historic and Archaeological Park

Arch Creek Park was created around a natural limestone bridge formation that was once part of an important trail first used by the Tequesta around 2,000 years ago and later by the Seminoles in the 19th century.

Middens dating to ...

Crane Point Nature Center Museums, and Historic Site

Exhibits about Native Americans in the Florida Keys include a 600-year-old dugout canoe.

Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State.

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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 ...

Mount Elizabeth, Indian Riverside Park

The Mount Elizabeth site is a large coastal midden dating between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago.

The exhibit on the site was developed by the Southeast Florida Archaeological Society Chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Tree Tops Park, Pine Island Ridge

This park provides access to Pine Island Ridge, a core area of Seminole settlement beginning in the 1830s.

The visitor center features exhibits on the life of Abiaka (Sam Jones) and the Battle of Pine Island Ridge, and a bronze ...