National Historic Landmark-Cedarcroft

National Historic Landmark-Cedarcroft

From 1859 to 1874, this was the residence of James Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), poet, novelist, and Civil War correspondent.

Taylor did much of his writing in this house, which he built himself.

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National Historic Landmark-Carrie Blast Furnace

National Historic Landmark- Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and

Built in 1906-1907, Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and 7 are the only remaining pre-World War II era blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh District, the nation's largest iron and steel production district for much ...

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

Erected in 1770-71 as a guild hall for the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, this is a fine example of late Georgian public architecture.

The building served as a meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774, ...

Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...

V.F.W. American Legion Hall

Architect and County Mayor C.B. Harvey donated plans for the building. Also known as the Black Town Hall, the building was constructed in 1951 by its members. The hall is named to commemorate blacks killed in World War I (William ...

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church began when the congregation sought to join the U.S Presbyterian denomination because English ministers stopped coming from the Bahamas to serve Trinity, then the only English Wesleyan Methodist Church in America. George Allen, Sr., became an ...

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

St. Peter's is the oldest black Anglican Church in the Diocese of South Florida. It was designed and built in 1923 by Joseph Hannibal, a Key West native and son of Shadrack Hannibal, a runaway slave.

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St. James First Missionary Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1876 by freed blacks from Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida who had come to the Keys to work on Henry Flagler's railroad. Today's masonry building is built around the wood original.

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Key West Cemetery

Founded in 1847, this cemetery contains the remains of numerous Civil War army and navy veterans, both Confederate and Union, with many buried in special veterans sections.

Among the Confederate veterans buried here is Captain Henry Mulrennan who commanded The ...

Higgs Beach Historic Marker

In 1860, the U.S. Navy rescued 1,432 African men, women and children on three American-owned slave ships sailing for Cuba. The Africans were freed and transported to Key West. One thousand individuals attemped to return to Africa, but 294, suffering ...