Daline "Dee" Riley

Daline "Dee" Riley lived on Mobile Point, Guantanamo Bay, while her father served there in the late 1960s.

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 ...

Bethel African American Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda

"Uncle Dan" Smith, a local African American religious leader constructed a thatch-roofed hut church on this site in 1886. Several white families, including Colonel Albert W. Gilchrist, who later became governor of Florida, were in attendance at the first service. ...

Garfield Cemetery

Dating back to the late-19th to mid-20th century, an archeological survey of this African American cemetery has found 13 marked graves.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Old Macedonia Colored Church

On February 18th, 1907, Murray E. and Sara Braddock Hall, members of early white families, donated land for the Macedonia Colored Baptist Church in Sebastian. A church was built in 1908 and later named Macedonia Baptist Church, to serve blacks ...

The E.O. Douglas School Marker

Built in 1957, the E.O. Douglas School was an all-black school named for the citizen activist and president of the First National Bank. The old wooden school building was originally located on Harris Street. Following integration, the final structure on ...

Springhill Baptist Church and Cemetery

The oldest church in Taylor County, Springhill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1853 in the area then known as Rosehead. In 1923 the church was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and many families fled the area in ...

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Framed in forests of mangrove trees, the shell mounds and ridges of Mound Key rise more than 30 feet above the waters of Estero Bay. Prehistoric Native Americans are credited with creating this island's complex of mounds with an accumulation ...

Big Talbot Island State Park

Named during the British period and originally used by the British grantees for plantation agriculture, including citrus, sugar, indigo, and cotton, Big Talbot Island was used by Spanish settlers during the following Second Spanish period.

Located on one of Northeast ...

Georgiana Railway

In 1892, Frank Cass Allen, a Georgiana merchant, began building a 0.6-mile standard-gauge railway with steel rail and wood ties across Merritt Island at this location, connecting docks on the Indian and Banana rivers. It was part of his private ...