Goofy Golf Pensacola

With a longevity that exceeds Disney World, the Goofy Golf miniature golf course on Navy Blvd has prevailed through decades of triumph and trial.

Miniature golf courses originated as "Tom Thumb Golf" near Chatanooga Tennessee in 1929 as the age ...

Bldg. 82, UWF CFPA

Occupied in 1991, The Center for Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) was the most expensive building on the UWF campus at $10,326,268. The academic programs and faculty offices for these disciplines were in the Humanities Building (36) and cramped for ...

Bldg. 85, 86 UWF COP

The College of Education, offices and classrooms, marked the first complex of buildings to recognize the reorganization of the academic structuring of the university from Alpha, Gamma, and Omega, to the more traditional College of Arts and Sciences, College of ...

Bldg. 81, UWF Campus Information Center

Campus Information Center, occupied in 1982, was a small but significant building. The site chosen was just west of the juncture of University Parkway and Campus Drive. The building program called for a covered drive-up window, two entrances convenient to ...

Plantation Cemetery at Betton Hills

The site is all that remains of a much larger cemetery for African Americans dating from the pre-Civil War era through the 1940s. It was the main burial ground for black slaves and servants from the Betton Plantation as well ...

Florida State University Campus

The Florida State University campus is the oldest continuously used site of higher education in the state of Florida. In 1851, the Florida Legislature authorized the establishment of two state seminaries, on east and one west of the Suwannee River.

Old Capitol of Florida

The first two sessions of the territorial legislature were held at St. Augustine and Pensacola. The hazards of traveling between cities 400 miles apart prompted legislators in 1824 to locate a new capital at Tallahassee, between the two cities.

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The Apalachee Missions

From 1633 until 1704, Franciscan monks established and operated a chain of missions and attempted to convert Florida Indians to Christianity. Apalachee missions also served as Spanish Florida's western defense network. In 1633, about 10,000 Indians lived in Apalachee Province: ...

St. Clement's Chapel Church of the Advent

Built in the town of Lloyd in 1890, this Episcopal chapel was dedicated as St. Clement's Church on June 14, 1895, by Edwin Gardner Weed, 3rd Bishop of Florida. William Betton of Tallahassee designed and built the structure at a ...

Belle Vue- Home of the Princess Murat

Former home of Catherine Daingerfield Willis, great-grandniece of George Washington and widow of Archille Murat, Prince of Naples and nephew of Napoleon. During the Second French Empire she was recognized as a princess and financially assisted by Napoleon III, whose ...