African Missionary Baptist Church

The first church was built on the corner of Parshley and Houston Avenue. This Masonry Vernacular building was built in 1910.

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Photo courtesy of Ebyabe.

Madison Post Office

The George Snow Hill mural reflecting life in the north Florida cotton industry was created as part of President Roosevelt's WPA program.

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Photo courtesy of Jimmy Wayne.

Four Freedoms Park

In the heart of the Madison historic district is the Four Freedoms Park. Erected in 1909 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a Confederate monument is located in Confederate Square in Four Freedoms Park. A plaque placed on the ...

Ray Charles Memorial at Haffye Hays Park

Greenville is the childhood home of Ray Charles (1930-2004). A full-sized statue commemorates the Greenville life of this world-famous singer, songwriter and composer who attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.

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Union Bank Building

The Union Bank, chartered in 1833, was a planters' bank in the territorial period of Florida history.

Constructed in 1841 and displaying elements of Federal and Greek Revival architecture, the building has housed a variety of business and cultural interests ...

Tallahassee Museum

This museum features several structures of historical significance related to black heritage. Bellevue, an 1840s plantation house and reconstructed slave cabin, addresses a period in Florida history when cotton planters built fortunes through slave labor.

The 1890s Concord Schoolhouse provided ...

St. James CME Church

This Gothic Revival structure was constructed in 1899 on land purchased by black members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church who formed a separate organization known as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. There were at least two earlier structures on ...

Rosa Parks Marker and C.K. Steele Statue

On December 1, 2005, a marker commemorating Rosa Parks was placed at the bus plaza with a statue honoring longtime Tallahassee civic rights leader, Reverend C.K. Steele (1914-1980).

The former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Reverend Steele became the most ...

Historic Capitol Museum & Florida Legislative Research Center

Highlighting the history of Florida politics and encouraging citizen involvement in the political process, exhibits examine the struggle for civil rights in Florida with displays about Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tallahassee bus boycott and civil rights activist Harry T. ...

Jakes-Patterson Monument

On May 26, 1956, Florida A&M University students Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson were arrested in Tallahassee because they refused to give up their bus seats next to a white passenger. The students were harassed and a cross was burned ...