Olustee Battlefield State Park

This park commemorates the site of Florida's largest Civil War battle, which took place February 20, 1864. A Union force of approximately 5,200 troops under the command of General Truman A. Seymour marched westward to meet a Confederate force led ...

Old Shadeville High School Marker

In 1931, a black high school for Wakulla County was constructed as an addition to the Shadeville Elementary School. After providing education to black students for 36 years, Shadeville was closed due to school desegregation in 1967. A monument was ...

Rosewood Florida Heritage Marker

This town was the site of an African American massacre in 1923. Following a false accuasation by a white woman, white men from the Cummer Lumber Company in Sumner were joined by other whites from as far away as Georgia ...

New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church

The New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist congregation, one of Perry's most prominent black churches, formed in 1914. The church was remodeled in 1963 and again in 1989.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Picture courtesy of New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church.

Jerkins High School

County school board minutes from May 1887 show education for Taylor County blacks came from the roots of Spnng Hili Missionary Baptist Church. Henry R. Jerkins. Jr., principal in 1930, had the most memorable impact. Jerkins arrived not long after ...

Ray Charles Memorial at Haffye Hays Park

Greenville is the childhood home of Ray Charles (1930-2004). A full-sized statue commemorates the Greenville life of this world-famous singer, songwriter and composer who attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.

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Union Bank Building

The Union Bank, chartered in 1833, was a planters' bank in the territorial period of Florida history.

Constructed in 1841 and displaying elements of Federal and Greek Revival architecture, the building has housed a variety of business and cultural interests ...

The Tookes Hotel

Mrs. Dorothy Nash Tookes, a founder of the Bond Street School for African American children in the 1930s, modified her home to accommodate African American travelers who could not stay in white hotels during segregation.

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Tallahassee Museum

This museum features several structures of historical significance related to black heritage. Bellevue, an 1840s plantation house and reconstructed slave cabin, addresses a period in Florida history when cotton planters built fortunes through slave labor.

The 1890s Concord Schoolhouse provided ...

Rosa Parks Marker and C.K. Steele Statue

On December 1, 2005, a marker commemorating Rosa Parks was placed at the bus plaza with a statue honoring longtime Tallahassee civic rights leader, Reverend C.K. Steele (1914-1980).

The former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Reverend Steele became the most ...