Frenchtown Historic Community

In 1831, historic plantations, churches, homesteads, educational institutions, businesses and residences filled this area.

The community has long been occupied by free people of color and other persons of African descent. Following the Civil War many freed slaves migrated into ...

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Established in 1887 as the Florida State Normal College for Colored Students, FAMU is the oldest historically black public university in Florida. The first president, Thomas DeSaille Tucker, and his assistant, Thomas Van Rennasaler, guided the school's beginning including its ...

First Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1832, congregation members completed this sanctuary in 1838. The only Tallahassee church still standing from territorial days, the Classic Revival style building with Gothic doors and windows is prominent in downtown. The north gallery was set aside for ...

Florida State Archives

In addition to on site research, the Florida State Archives offers web-based access to an extensive collection of original documents, photographs, and other materials for historical research on state history through the Florida Memory Project at: www.floridamemory.com.

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Carnegie Library/Black Archives Research Center & Museum

The Carnegie Library was completed in 1907 and is the oldest standing building on the Florida A&M University campus.

Its mission is to collect, preserve, display and disseminate information about African Americans and people of African descent worldwide, especially the ...

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church

The Rev. C. K. Steele, pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, was one of Tallahassee's most notable civil rights activists. Many meetings associated with the Tallahassee bus boycott were held in this church, which made it a target of Ku ...

Howard Academy High School

In 1936, African American students in grades one through twelve consolidated in this public school building from the Masonic Lodge, Bethel AME Church and Miss Lenora Mills' store. Constructed in 1940, the second building became the high school and the ...

Elizabeth School in the Dills Community

Originally housed in the Elizabeth Church, Elizabeth School was established when Miles Groover and his wife Daisy Black Groover donated two acres of land for the new site. The school building was completed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. ...

William S. Stevens High School

The Stevens School was built for all grades in the 1920s as the Dunbar School, with funding from the Rosenwald Foundation. Dr. William Spencer Stevens, for whom the school was named, graduated from Florida State Normal and Industrial College and ...

Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1866, this congregation is among the oldest in Gadsden County. The Romanesque Revival style building was constructed in 1938-39 and named for the Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, the presiding bishop in Florida from 1888-1892.

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