Eugene Lamb Jr. Recreation Center

The predominantly black town of Midway was incorporated in 1987. After the former school for blacks burned, a city hall building was constructed on this site. Named for Midway native, Mayor Eugene Lamb, Jr., former teacher and coach and visionary ...

Richardson High School

The high school was built in 1957 for the African American youth of Columbia County, and closed in the early 1970s.

The gymnasium and basketball court still stand. The playing fields and gym are now part of the Richardson Community ...

Trinity United Methodist Church

Gothic architectural style and stained glass windows distinguish the Trinity United Methodist Church as a historic landmark in Lake City.

The African American congregation was first organized in 1863 as the Gethsemane Methodist Episcopal Church. The church standing today was ...

Niblack Elementary School

This school was built in 1954 in an effort to consolidate elementary schools serving African American students in Columbia County. Because of her efforts to build, consolidate, and improve schools in the area, the school was named for Minnie Jones ...

Robinson Jenkins Ellerson (R.J.E.) High School

The earliest black school in Bradford County began in a one-room structure on State Road 100 near the Brymer Settlement. When that building burned, the Robinson Jenkins Ellerson structure was built in 1913. Under the direction of three men, the ...

Waldo Cemetery

Pioneer African American families are buried in the town's black cemetery. Henry Hill, the first black fireman in the City of Waldo, was laid to rest here, as are veterans from the Civil War.

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Hawthorne Historical Museum and Cultural Center

Established in 1907 as home to the New Hope Methodist Church, one of Hawthorne's oldest black congregations, the building was transplanted from its original location four blocks away. Restored in 1993, the museum displays the original pulpit, pastor's chair, several ...

Union Academy

In 1865 the Freedmen Bureau established the Union Academy to educate blacks. Supported by northern friends, the George Peabody Fund, and the Alachua County Board of Public Instruction, black carpenters built the frame building, the second largest school constructed by ...

St. Augustine Day Care

Erected between 1875 and 1889 as an Episcopal mission church for the black community in Gainesville, this building served as a parochial school after moving to its present site in 1895.

It became a day care center in 1957 and ...

Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church

One of the oldest congregations in Gainesville, the Shady Grove Primitive Baptist church stands on land deeded to the elders of the church in 1900.

The present coquina block church was built in the Porters neighborhood in the 1930s.

Porters ...