National Historic Landmark-Calvin Coolidge Homestead

Calvin Coolidge Homestead District

Calvin Coolidge was born here in 1872 in the house attached to his father's general store. In 1876 the family moved across the street and it was here in 1923 that Coolidge was sworn in as president ...

Saint Michael's Catholic Church

Historic Palafox Business District

The current Gothic revival building at 21 North Palafox dates to 1886, but Saint Michael's history in Pensacola goes much further back than 125 years. Saint Michael's traces its history to 1559 when Spanish settlers under don ...

Woodland Park

Woodland Park was located near the city of Sanford on the shores of Lake Monroe. It was run by owner Victor Schmelz and his son from 1910 to the 1920s. In 1909, Schmelz installed an eighty by thirty foot swimming ...

Steamboats and Sanford

The marker "Steamboats" is located near the modern day Sanford docks and waterfront. Steamboats began appearing on the St. Johns River around 1840 and reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. It was near here that many nineteenth century ...

Slavia

The town of Slavia was founded in 1911 as a religious and agricultural community by the Slavia Colony Company for recent Slovak immigrants from Czechoslovakia. Growing celery was the primary form of income for the residents. The Slovaks who founded ...

Sanford Residential Historic District

The Sanford Residential Historic District contains buildings that date from the 1880s to the 1930s, when Sanford was a prominent agricultural and transportation center. While the district consists primarily of residential houses, there are also some commercial buildings, such as ...

Naval Air Station Stanford Memorial Park

The Naval Air Station at Sanford was opened in 1942 during World War II and trained an estimated 50 percent of naval fighter and bomber pilots during the war. It was decommissioned in 1946, following the end of the war. ...

Lake Jesup

Lake Jesup is located in Seminole County and is part of the St. Johns River System. General Thomas Sidney Jesup of the United States Army named the lake after himself during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). The lake is 13 ...

Lake Charm

Located near Oviedo in Seminole County, Lake Charm served as a popular vacation resort in the late nineteenth century. Lake Charm was first settled in 1868 by Florida's incumbent comptroller and treasurer, Walter Gwynn, along with his family. Gwynn's daughter, ...

Gabriella

Gabriella was a small farming community located between the towns of Jamestown and Goldenrod, on modern day state road 426. The community contained a post office, a general store, and a one room school house, none of which remain today. ...