Bldg. 82, UWF CFPA

Occupied in 1991, The Center for Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) was the most expensive building on the UWF campus at $10,326,268. The academic programs and faculty offices for these disciplines were in the Humanities Building (36) and cramped for ...

Bldg. 85, 86 UWF COP

The College of Education, offices and classrooms, marked the first complex of buildings to recognize the reorganization of the academic structuring of the university from Alpha, Gamma, and Omega, to the more traditional College of Arts and Sciences, College of ...

Bldg. 81, UWF Campus Information Center

Campus Information Center, occupied in 1982, was a small but significant building. The site chosen was just west of the juncture of University Parkway and Campus Drive. The building program called for a covered drive-up window, two entrances convenient to ...

Bldg. 83, UWF Wetlands Research Lab

Wetlands Research Lab (WRL) is not the biggest building on campus, nor the most important; however, it is representative of the many smaller, support buildings across campus that fill out the needs of what makes up a university. WRL managed ...

Bldg. 77 and 78 UWF ERDC

Educational Research and Development Center (ERDC) was the brainchild of Dr. Billy Williams and the desire of President Crosby. The program was created as a laboratory for on-going educational research and development to explore the approach and methodology of the ...

Old Fort Braden School

Fort Braden was established in 1839 as a military outpost during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). At the end of the war the fort was abandoned, but the small farming community that had developed nearby continued.

A school in the ...

Plantation Cemetery at Betton Hills

The site is all that remains of a much larger cemetery for African Americans dating from the pre-Civil War era through the 1940s. It was the main burial ground for black slaves and servants from the Betton Plantation as well ...

Leon County

Originally part of Escambia and later Gadsden Counties, Leon was created by the territorial legislature in 1824. Named for Juan Ponce de Leon, discoverer of Florida, it became antebellum Florida's most prosperous and populous county, Cotton thrived in its fertile ...

Florida State University Campus

The Florida State University campus is the oldest continuously used site of higher education in the state of Florida. In 1851, the Florida Legislature authorized the establishment of two state seminaries, on east and one west of the Suwannee River.

Old Capitol of Florida

The first two sessions of the territorial legislature were held at St. Augustine and Pensacola. The hazards of traveling between cities 400 miles apart prompted legislators in 1824 to locate a new capital at Tallahassee, between the two cities.

Log ...