Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel

The Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel has served the city of Pensacola for one hundred and forty-two years and continues to serve the members of the community in their hour of need.

In 1868, Felix Bonifay established the first undertaking business in ...

Loretto Chapel and the Miraculous Staircase

In 1853, Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and the Kentuckian Sisters of Loretto established the Academy of Our Lady of Light in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In its initial years of operation the academy lacked a proper place of worship, which ...

Sunset Strip

Many stars of Hollywood's burgeoning film industry of the 1920s and '30s found solace in the Hollywood Hills.

With the city of Los Angeles cracking down on gambling and alcohol many casinos and restaurants including the Trocadero and Mocambo's opened ...

Pensacola Beach Sign

The Pensacola Beach Sign was designed in 1960 by Mrs. Patricia Thorton Born. The Sign was commissioned by the Santa Rosa Island Authority to help direct tourists to drive from the city of Pensacola to Pensacola Beach.

Lamar Advertising built ...

Naples

Located in extreme southwestern Florida, Naples is in an area that was once home to Calusa and Seminole Indians. White settlers began arriving in the 1860s when Roger Gordon, a frontiersman and traveler, constructed a small fishing camp in the ...

Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach, the second oldest city in Broward County, has a history dating back a thousand years. The area near Lake Santa Barbara was first inhabited by Tequesta Indians, who buried their dead in earthen mounds still visible today in ...

Punta Gorda

On the southern banks of the Peace River and the shores of Charlotte Harbor is the city of Punta Gorda, meaning "wide point" in Spanish. A site of early European contact with resident Native Americans, white settlers began settling to ...

Fort Pierce

Fort Pierce, located near Indian River Lagoon, sits along Florida's Treasure Coast in St. Lucie County. Early Spanish settlers from St. Augustine first came down the Indian River in 1565 and tried to establish homes in the area. But battles ...

Micanopy

Founded shortly after Spain relinquished Florida to the United States in 1821, Micanopy became the first distinct U.S. town in the new Florida territory. Named in honor of a Seminole chief, the town traces its origins to an Indian village ...

High Springs

Just east of the historic De Soto Trail lies the scenic town of High Springs. The chroniclers of the Hernando De Soto expedition reported many Timucua Indian towns in this area in 1539. But in less than two centuries, Spanish ...