East Hillsborough Historical Society Museum

Located in the restored 1914 Plant City High School building, the East Hillsborough Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of Plant City and eastern Hillsborough County.

The Society maintains a museum and the ...

Bayport Park

During the Civil War, the port community of Bayport was an active area for blockade running. In April 1863, an expedition of Union sailors in seven launches and cutters entered the harbor where six blockade runners were in port.

Four ...

May-Stringer House and Heritage Museum

Constructed in 1856, the May-Stringer House was the postwar residence of Frank E. Saxon who served in the Hernando Wildcats unit of the 3rd Florida Infantry and was badly wounded at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky in October 1862.

Today, ...

The Old Courthouse Heritage Museum

Formed in 1963, the Citrus County Historical Society, Inc. exists to preserve and further the knowledge of the history and pre-history of Citrus County and nearby areas and, since 1985, has been located in the restored 1912 Old Citrus County ...

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins

David Levy Yulee, one of Florida's first United States Senators and the first Jewish member of that body, operated a 5,100-acre plantation on this site.

Constructed in 1851 using expensive machinery shipped down from New York, the Yulee Sugar Mill ...

Old Fort Park

This city park contains massive coquina stone ruins known locally as the Old Fort but which are most likely the remnants of an 18th century British period residential or commercial structure. In the 1850s, a large wooden hotel with about ...

New Smyrna Museum of History

Located in the restored 1925 Old Post Office building, the museum's Perimeter Gallery contains exhibits on local history, including Native American exhibits with artifacts and displays on the pre-European cultures of southeast Volusia County. Seminoles are highlighted as part of ...

De Leon Springs State Park

Native Americans visited and used these springs as long as 6,000 years ago. In the early 1800s, settlers built sugar and cotton plantations that were sacked by Seminole Indians during the Second Seminole War. By the 1880s the springs had ...

The Florida Historical Society-Cocoa

Founded in 1856 in St. Augustine, the primary mission of the Florida Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and publish materials relating to the history of Florida and its peoples. After a period of inactivity during the Civil War and ...

Geneva Cemetery

Convicted Lincoln conspirator and Alabama native, Lewis Thornton Powell enlisted in the Hamilton Blues Company, 2nd Florida Infantry in May, 1861. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, Union soldiers hospitalized Powell in Baltimore.

Escaping from there ...