National Historic Landmark-Carrie Blast Furnace

National Historic Landmark- Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and

Built in 1906-1907, Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and 7 are the only remaining pre-World War II era blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh District, the nation's largest iron and steel production district for much ...

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

National Historic Landmark-Carpenter's Hall

Erected in 1770-71 as a guild hall for the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, this is a fine example of late Georgian public architecture.

The building served as a meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774, ...

Adderley House

Located in the Crane Point Historic and Archaeological District, this Masonry Vernacular house was built in 1906 by George Adderley, a black Bahamian immigrant who was a sponge diver, boatman and charcoal maker. The one-story building with a hip roof ...

V.F.W. American Legion Hall

Architect and County Mayor C.B. Harvey donated plans for the building. Also known as the Black Town Hall, the building was constructed in 1951 by its members. The hall is named to commemorate blacks killed in World War I (William ...

Truman Little White House

At the Little White House, on December 3, 1951, President Harry S. Truman wrote the fourth Executive Order establishing the Committee on Government Contract Compliance to secure better compliance by contractors and subcontractors with laws that forbade discrimination because of ...

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church began when the congregation sought to join the U.S Presbyterian denomination because English ministers stopped coming from the Bahamas to serve Trinity, then the only English Wesleyan Methodist Church in America. George Allen, Sr., became an ...

Trinity Presbyterian

Served by ministers from the Bahamas on a quarterly basis until 1895, Trinity English Wesley Methodist Church was then accepted in the St. Jonn's Presbytery, and its name changed to Trinity Presbyterian. Established by both black and white Bahamians, the ...

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

St. Peter's is the oldest black Anglican Church in the Diocese of South Florida. It was designed and built in 1923 by Joseph Hannibal, a Key West native and son of Shadrack Hannibal, a runaway slave.

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St. James First Missionary Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1876 by freed blacks from Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida who had come to the Keys to work on Henry Flagler's railroad. Today's masonry building is built around the wood original.

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Nelson English Park

Located in Bahama Village, this park is named for the African American civic leader who was the island's postmaster from 1881-1886.

Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State

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