Elizabeth School in the Dills Community

Originally housed in the Elizabeth Church, Elizabeth School was established when Miles Groover and his wife Daisy Black Groover donated two acres of land for the new site. The school building was completed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. ...

The Old Jail

Now a museum, this 1893 red brick jail building contains the cells where black and white prisoners were once confined on the second floor. The central tower was used for hangings as late as 1916. Documents, photographs, and memorabilia are ...

William S. Stevens High School

The Stevens School was built for all grades in the 1920s as the Dunbar School, with funding from the Rosenwald Foundation. Dr. William Spencer Stevens, for whom the school was named, graduated from Florida State Normal and Industrial College and ...

Hardon Building

One of Quincy's earliest ice and electric plants was owned by African American resident William Hardon. Hardon's small generator was located in the rear of the building with the ice plant adjacent to it. The masonry vernacular building, constructed around ...

Good Shepherd Lodge

Across the street from the Stevens School is a small white frame building with a blue Great Floridian 2000 plaque honoring Witt A. Campbell, who served as the financial officer for the Good Shepherd Lodge of the Order of Emancipated ...

Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1866, this congregation is among the oldest in Gadsden County. The Romanesque Revival style building was constructed in 1938-39 and named for the Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, the presiding bishop in Florida from 1888-1892.

Information provided by Florida ...

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 ...

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 ...