Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Kissimmee

This one-story Masonry Vernacular church was constructed in 1916. The name of Lawrence Silas, a prosperous black cattleman in Florida's range country, appears on the cornerstone. With his father's estate gone, Lawrence Silas rebuilt the family fortune and eventually owned ...

Hannibal Square Historic Neighborhood

From its beginning in 1881, African Americans played an integral part of Winter Park's development. The original town plan designated the Hannibal Square neighborhood for homes of African Americans who worked in the groves, hotels, homes, and as carpenters and ...

Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture

Dr. William Monroe Wells, an African American physician, built this hotel in 1926 to provide lodging to African Americans visiting the Orlando area. Second-floor hotel rooms complemented three first-floor store fronts. The adjacent South Street Casino attracted many famous entertainers, ...

Old Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The congregation first met in a shed in 1919, and erected this stone church in 1920. This Romanesque style building now houses the Tabernacle of the Enlightened Church of God.

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Dr. I.S. Hankins House (Private)

This Mediterranean Revival style residence was built in 1935 as the home of Orlando's pioneer black physician who campaigned for improved race relations and black home ownership.

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Callahan Neighborhood

Bounded by Colonial Drive, Central Avenue, Division Street and Orange Blossom Trail.

This is one of Orlando's oldest black communities, originating in 1886. The district includes Callahan Neighborhood Center, the former old Jones High School, established in 1895.

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Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts

From the 1880s to the 1930s, hundreds of communities founded by and for African Americans were established throughout the southern U.S. Few have survived, but Eatonville is an exception. In 1887 it was the first of these communities to incorporate ...

West Ocala Historic District

Located on Silver Springs Boulevard between Eastbound I-75 and Pine Avenue.

This historic district includes more than 100 buildings that are significant to the African American community that flourished here between 1886 and 1920.

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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Ocala

The only surviving brick 19th century religious structure in Ocala, the present Gothic Revival church stands behind the site of the original white frame building. Construction of the first brick church owned by a black congregation began in 1891 under ...

Howard Academy Community Center

Howard Academy was established in 1886 by the Board of Public Instruction as a grade school for Negroes.

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