The Quincy Academy State Historical Marker

A State Historical Marker is located at the building constructed in 1851 to house the Quincy Academy, a private educational institution for children of Gadsden and surrounding counties. During the Civil War, the building was used as a Confederate military ...

Soldiers Cemetery in Eastern Cemetery

This cemetery was established early in the Civil War for Confederate soldiers who had no family in Quincy and were too far from home for their bodies to be returned to their families. Located in the cemetery, a State Historical ...

Smallwood-White House State Historical Marker

A doubled-sided State Historical Marker for The White House/Pleasants Woodson White contains details on this house which was constructed in 1843 and remodeled to its present appearance in 1856. During the Civil War, this house was the residence of Pleasants ...

A.K. Allison House

Constructed in 1843, this house was the residence of Abraham K. Allison, the Florida Senate President who became acting governor on April 1, 1865, after Governor John Milton committed suicide.

Allison resigned the office on May 19, 1865, was arrested ...

Chattahoochee Arsenal

Also known as the Mt. Vernon Arsenal (the community's early name) and the Apalachicola Arsenal (for the nearby river), the construction of the Chattahoochee Arsenal was authorized by Congress in 1832.

Completed in 1839, the arsenal consisted of 17 buildings ...

Oaklawn Cemetery

This hallowed ground set aside as a town

burial site in 1850 "for whites & slaves alike"

is the resting place for many of Tampa's founding fathers, mayors, and county officers.

A governor of Florida, two Supreme Court

Judges, framers ...

Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum

This museum is housed in the restored c.1870 May Vinzant Perkins House. The house was the postwar residence of John Vinzant who served as a sergeant in the 1st Florida Cavalry which fought in the western theater. At the Third ...

Dudley Farm Historic State Park

This historic state park is a unique remaining example of a historic Florida farm from the mid-1800s. Located on a 333-acre site, this typical early Florida farm served three generations of the Dudley family. The patriarch, Philip Benjamin Dudley, Sr., ...

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History-University of Florida

The P.K. Yonge Library, in the George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special and Area Studies, is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection. It includes a diverse array of primary sources, and is the most comprehensive repository for early Florida newspapers. ...

Old Gainesville Depot

A portion of this building was constructed circa 1860. It is the only remaining Civil War railroad depot from the Florida Railroad line which ran from Fernandina to Cedar Key. During the Battle of Gainesville on August 17, 1864, Union ...