National Historic Landmark-DuBose Hayward House

National Historic Landmark-DuBose Heyward House

From about 1919 to 1924, this was the residence of DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), author the novel PORGY (1925), which inspired the famed folk opera PORGY AND BESS.

Heyward chose as the setting for his novel the ...

National Historic Landmark-Hampton Plantation

National Historic Landmark-Hampton Plantation

Erected in 1735, enlarged in 1757 and again in 1791, this building evolved from a modest frame structure built by a Huguenot settler into a large Georgian county house.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Community Cemetery

Originally known as the White Lily Cemetery, the Mount Olive Courtenay Community Cemetery was on the grounds adjacent to the Bethel AME Church, one of the first black churches on Merritt Island. Grave sites date from 1919.

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Richard E. Stone Historic District

121-304 Stone Street

The district is named for Richard E. Stone, who invented and patented the Directional Signal Light for automobiles in 1935. Stone established the first recreational center building, Cocoa's first black professional baseball team, and helped start the Cocoa-Rockledge ...

Hilltop Cemetery/Cemetery Hill

This African American cemetery, known to locals as Hilltop Cemetery, was established during the 1880s. The oldest grave stone found is dated 1889.

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Harry T. Moore Center

This is the site of the first black school in Cocoa and the only original black high school now standing in Brevard County. Built in 1924 as Cocoa Junior High School, when classes were moved to a new facility in ...

Community of Royal/Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church

When slavery was abolished in 1865, the Royal community was founded by former slaves from the old Green Plantation located near the Withlacoochee River. Moving further inland to farm for themselves, the former slaves built log cabin homes and dug ...

St. James African Methodist Church

Organized in 1867, the church purchased land on the corner of East 9th Street and South Cypress Avenue. Sanford's oldest church founded by blacks, St. James is a red-brick English Gothic Revival style building with four matching stained glass windows. ...

Hopper Academy

Built between 1900 and 1910, this frame vernacular two-story T-shaped building served as Sanford High School. One of the few remaining early black high schools in Florida, the facility now houses an educational community service center.

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Little Red School House

Built as Sanford Primary School #1 between 1906 and 1912, the Schoolhouse is part of the Sanford Residential Historic District. Today it houses the Tajiri School which features the Sanford Out of the Dust Ancestral Path to Dignity Tour.

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