Daytona Beach Road Course

The Daytona Beach Road Course is one of the most historic raceways in America. Although long ago replaced by the Daytona International Speedway, the original site of local stock-car racing was critical to the modern development of NASCAR.

Designed by local ...

Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church

The Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church was organized in 1866 by blacks that left the First Baptist Church.

This 1916 building is an excellent example of Gothic Revival architecture designed by Wallace A. Rayfield, a leading African American architect in ...

New Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Bagdad Museum Complex)

This church is among the oldest in Santa Rosa County. Carpenters who were sons of the pastor, the Rev. John Kelker, Sr., built the original church.

The current wood frame vernacular structure was built in 1901. Moved to its present ...

JRL Conyers Lodge #364

The Masons and Eastern Stars are vital members of the African American community. This 1909 Lodge Hall was also used as an early school facility.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

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Carver-Hill Museum and Fairview Park Complex

The Okaloosa Negro Civic Club established a neighborhood park in the early 1950s. When a new school was built in 1954, Carver-Hill, the old one-room frame lunchroom building was given to the Civic Club by the Okaloosa County School Board.

Little Zion School

Off the beaten path, on a winding country road in rural North Florida stands one of few historic schoolhouses that served blacks after slavery.

On its original site, the Little Zion School is being restored by community families. The Little ...

The St. Luke Church

In 1867 a small band of baptized believers founded what is today known as the St. Luke Baptist Church.

A parcel of land was purchased and in 1890, a wooden church was built. A brick building was constructed in 1921 ...

Renaissance Park

About 8.5 miles northeast of downtown Marianna, this 40-acre wildemess park is filled with artifacts and objects reminiscent of early rural farm life.

Each year in September and December, a community festival takes place as African American tradition bearers demonstrate ...

George Washington High School

George Washington High School began in a wooden building located near Main Street and Avenue G around 1940.

Before the school was built, local black students received instruction in an old house and in a small wooden church in North ...

St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church

On land purchased in 1866, a small wooden structure served as the St. Paul's AME Church for 74 years.

The building of a second, larger wooden structure led to the church as it exists today. The current sanctuary was constructed ...