Plum Island Life-Saving and Light Stations

Built in 1896, the Plum Island Life-Saving and Light Stations helped ships navigate the Porte des Morte (Death's Door) passage, a treacherous passage named for the high number of shipwrecks that occurred on its rocky shoals.

The Life-Saving and Light ...

The California Club

The California Club in Los Angeles is considered one of the most important buildings of Robert D. Farquhar. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris he became one of a small number of architects practicing in California ...

Charles River Speedway Headquarters

Consisting of an ensemble of connected buildings built in the Shingle and Colonial styles, the Charles River Speedway Headquarters recalls the late 19th-early 20th century summer estates in seaside and rural areas.

Designed by William D. Austin, a prominent Boston ...

Cedar Grove Plantation

In it's heyday as a working plantation Cedar Grove, in southern Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was home to the Lewis family and about 100 slaves. John Taylor Lewis bought the original 1600 acres of Cedar Grove in 1782 for 80,000 pounds ...

Big Lagoon State Park

Sitting on the northern shoreline of its namesake, Big Lagoon State Park's 655 upland acres separate the mainland from Perdido Key and the Gulf of Mexico. Natural communities, ranging from saltwater marshes to pine flatwoods, attract a wide variety of ...

Captain Edmond Edgecumbe-St. Michael's Cemetery

Capt. Edmond Edgecumbe was born in the West Indies on September 13, 1855, and he immigrated to Florida via Key West. In Florida, he became a captain of a snapper boat. The late 1800s and early 1900s the fishing industry ...

The Commyns Family-St. Michael's Cemetery

The Commyns family resided in Pensacola as early as the late 18th century. Thomas Commyns, the patriarch of the family, worked baking bread for the Spanish militia at Mobile.

Thomas married Maria Lafond in 1816, and they had eight children. ...

James Biddle Lardner-St. Michael's Cemetery

James Biddle Lardner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1808. Lardner joined the Navy as a Midshipman on December 4, 1822 at the age of fourteen, and he may have been assigned to the West Indies squadron monitoring illegal slave ...

Gray Bldg

A historical museum

Stephen Russell Mallory- St. Michael's Cemetery

Stephen Russell Mallory was born on the island of Trinidad in 1812. He moved to Key West at the age of nine but was sent to both Mobile and Pennsylvania for his formal education.

In 1838, Mallory married Angela Moreno, the ...