Cedar Keys Lighthouse

The Cedar Keys Lighthouse was constructed in 1854 on Seahorse Key under the supervision of Lieutenant George G. Meade, who, in 1863, would command the Union Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg.

After the start of the Civil ...

Cedar Key Museum State Park

Picturesque Cedar Key, on Florida's Gulf Coast, was a thriving port city and railroad connection during the 19th century. The museum contains exhibits that depict its colorful history during that era. Part of the collection has sea shells and Indian ...

Cedar Key Historical Society Museum

Located in the c.1871 Lutterloh Building, this museum contains an extensive collection of historic Cedar Keys photographs, documents and area artifacts. Displays include Civil War objects such as an inscribed wooden grave marker from Seahorse Key of a Union sailor ...

Cedar Key

At the beginning of the Civil War, Cedar Key was an important transportation center as a Gulf port city, and as the western terminus of the Florida Railroad from Fernandina. During the war, the Cedar Keys area was an active ...

Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park

Natural Bridge is the site of the second largest Civil War battle in Florida, and where the St. Marks River drops into a sinkhole and flows underground for one-quarter of a mile before reemerging.

In March 1865, a Union force ...

Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail

The first railroad chartered by the Florida territorial government in 1831, the Leon Railway Company becamethe Tallahassee Railroad Company in 1834, and was the first rail line to begin construction in the state. In 1837, the route between Tallahassee and ...

St. Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery

Established in 1840, this cemetery is the burial place for many of Leon County's most prominentfamilies. Among those buried here is Theodore W. Brevard, who raised a Partisan Ranger Battalion at the beginning of the war that became part of ...

State Archives-Library of Florida/R.A. Gray Building

The Florida Collection in the State Library contains one of the most comprehensive holdings of Floridiana in the state. Books, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, newspaper articles, and periodicals are among the 60,000 items in the collection.

The State Archives of Florida ...

Old City Cemetery Tallahassee

Established by the Florida Territorial Council in 1829, this is the oldest public cemetery in Tallahassee, and was acquired by the City of Tallahassee in 1840. The cemetery contains both a Confederate soldiers section in the eastern half and a ...

Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot

Constructed in c.1858, a second story was added to the building by 1885. This depot was one of the stations on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and a center for trade and transportation in Leon County, including the transport of ...