Bethel African American Episcopal Church - Palatka

The residents of the community of Newtown organized the Bethel AME church in 1866. This Romanesque Revival style building was constructed by the congregation circa 1908-1912.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Photo courtesy of Fish Ministries.

1960s Civil Rights Historic Site Marker

On Saturday, August 27, 1960, forty Youth Council demonstrators from the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP staged a sit-in at the W.T. Grant Department Store, and at Woolworth's Five-and-Ten Cent Store across from Hemming Park.

Seeking access to the whites-only ...

Trinity Presbyterian Church/Happy Workers Day Care

Built in 1929, the Trinity Presbyterian Church/Happy Workers Day Care is important for its link to St. Petersburg's educational, social and religious history. In 1928, the Presbyterian Synod of Atlanta determined that south St. Petersburg should have a church, and ...

Manhattan Casino (Private)

Built in 1925, the Manhattan Casino is significant for its association with Elder Jordan, a local African American entrepreneur, who, with his five sons settled in St. Petersburg in 1904. Jordan and his sons contracted in 1925 to build the ...

Booker High School

Emma E. Booker, a pioneer black educator, was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918, she was principal of Sarasota Grammar School, holding classes in tented halls. The Julius Rosenwald Fund helped build a ...

Establishment of Tallahassee, Capitol of Florida

EVER WONDER WHY TALLAHASSEE IS FLORIDA'S CAPITAL?

IT GOES BACK TO WHEN FLORIDA BECAME

AN AMERICAN TERRITORY IN 1821.

THE UNITED STATES ACQUIRED WHAT HAD BEEN

TWO COLONIES, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA,

WITH CAPITALS IN ST. AUGUSTINE AND PENSACOLA.

THE ...

Canopy Roads

PASSING BENEATH THE LATTICED BRANCHES OF OUR CHERISHED CANOPY ROADS, THE INFORMED COMMUTER WILL FIND THE ARBORS INTERLACED WITH FLORIDA HISTORY.

SOME OF THE CANOPY ROADS WITHIN LEON COUNTY RETRACE PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN PATHWAYS, EUROPEAN EXPLORATION, PLANTATION LIFE, AND HUNTING TRAILS. ...

Theresa Coffey

Theresa Coffey lived in Guantanamo Bay when the Navy stationed her father there from 1961 to 1963. At age 13, she experienced the evacuation of the civilians from GTMO during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Evergreen Park Cemetery

With nearly 3,300 burial plots, this is one of the oldest black cemeteries in Dade County. Most remains are placed in above-ground vaults, a tradition in the area's black community.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Home of the oldest black congregation in Miami, Greater Bethel AME Church was organized in 1896, several months before the city was incorporated. Construction of this Mediterranean Revival style building began in 1927 and was completed in 1942. It is ...