Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1872 from the Prayer Band started some years earlier by Samuel Irving, Macedonia AME Church was originally located on the corner of Seventh and Beech Streets. The Congregation moved into its newly built sanctuary in 1899. The bell ...

American Beach

The American Beach historic district is at the south end of Amelia Island. In 1935, A.L. Lewis, president of The Pension Bureau of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company bought 33 acres of oceanfront property. Company employees were invited to use ...

African American Cultural Center

Built in 2001, the center provides office, classroom, and reference library facilities.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Ritz Theater

Located in a traditionally black commercial district in the La Villa neighborhood, this 1929 Art Deco style building housed a cinema, shops and offices. The Ritz Elementary and surrounding commercial properties grew into a thriving arts, entertainment, and shopping area ...

Old Stanton High School (Private)

The Trustees of Florida Institute established Stanton High School in 1868 as the first public black school in Jacksonville. It was named for Edwin M. Stanton, an outspoken abolitionist and Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln. This masonry vernacular-style structure, ...

Old Jacksonville Beach Elementary School

Mother Rhoda Martin founded the Jacksonville Beach Elementary School for Colored People. In 1939 the county built a four-room brick school structure, which also served as a community center, well-baby clinic and recreational area for the community. The building was ...

National Historic Landmark-Emma Willard House

National Historical Landmark-Emma Willard House

This two-story brick structure was from 1809 until 1819 the home of Emma Hart Willard, an influential pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States.

It is now used as the admissions office ...

National Historic Landmark-Vermont Statehouse

National Historical Landmark- Vermont Statehouse

Erected in 1833-38, this building is probably the least-altered example of a noted architect's monumentally-scaled public building in the Greek Revival style.

Though the timber interior was damaged by fire in 1857, the granite exterior walls ...

National Historic Landmark-Ticonderoga (Steamboat)

National Historical Landmark- TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat)

Only extant and basically unchanged side-paddle-wheel lakeboat in the U.S. Used as a Lake Champlain excursion boat from 1906 to 1953.

National Historic Landmark-Stellafane

National Historical Landmark- Stellafane Observatory

Stellafane Observatory played a pioneering role in the development of amateur telescope making and popular astronomy in the United States.

The site contains the original clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc. (1924), and the first large ...