Indian Mound Lodge #1205

The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) is the largest black fraternal organization in the world.

This property is home of Indian Mound Lodge #1205 and Booker T. Washington Temple #963.

The Lodge and Temple provide ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Mark Dunn II-St. Michael's Cemetery

Frank Mark II(1910-1995) was born on Christmas day to Frank Mark and Laura Helen Dunn, his father died just three weeks later.

Laura Helen Dunn moved the family to Seattle, Washington where Frank Mark II joined the Army and worked ...

Frank Mark Dunn-St. Michael's Cemetery

Due to his father's job as a stevedore, Frank Mark Dunn (1871-1911)was exposed early on to the maritime industry. Frank Mark was the third child of Edward and Mary Dunn.

He became an apprentice of Bar Pilot's Association of Pensacola ...

Elizabeth Weid-St Michael's Cemetery

Elizabeth Weid (1811-1866), born Elizabeth Rucheimer in Bavaria, Germany, her husband Johann George Weid, a stone mason, and five of their six children arrived at New Orleans in May of 1853 aboard the ship Auguste.

The family left Bremen, Germany ...