Florida Land and Colonization Company

The Florida Land and Colonization Company was located in Sanford, Florida in Seminole County. The Company was established by Henry Sanford in 1880, who hoped to use the Company to help sell and develop his land holdings in Florida. The ...

Florida Monument - Chickamauga

Fought on September 19-20, 1863, the Battle of Chickamauga was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, with nearly 35,000 Union and Confederate casualties

Seven Florida units participated in the battle and suffered over 550 dead, wounded, missing, ...

Florida Monument-Winchester

Located in the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery, the Florida plot contains an obelisk monument in front of the marked graves of 38 Florida Confederate soldiers. It was erected in 1902 by the Florida Division of ...

Florida Monument-Franklin

Maintained by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the McGavock Confederate Cemetery is believed to be the largest privately held Confederate cemetery in the United States.

It contains the remains of nearly 1,500 Confederate casualties from the November 1864 Battle ...

Florida Monument-Gettysburg

At the Battle of Gettysburg, the Florida Brigade (comprised of the 2nd, 5th, and 8th Florida Infantry Regiments), under the command of Colonel David Lang, participated in the heaviest fighting of July 2 and 3, 1863, including an advance in ...

Florida Monument- Vicksburg

Erected by the Florida Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1954, the Florida Monument is located on former national park property, which was later deeded back to the City of Vicksburg.

This granite monolith monument commemorates the ...

Cape Florida Lighthouse

To protect shipping in the hazardous Straits of Florida, Congress authorized the construction of the Cape Florida Lighthouse in 1822. The first lighting occurred on December 17, 1825. In July 1836, an Indian attack in the early months of the ...

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 ...

Florida House Inn

Constructed in 1857 by the Florida Railroad Company, it is among the state's oldest surviving tourist hotels. During the Federal occupation of Fernandina, the house was occupied by Union troops for officers’ quarters. The house is now operated as a ...

State Archives-Library of Florida/R.A. Gray Building

The Florida Collection in the State Library contains one of the most comprehensive holdings of Floridiana in the state. Books, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, newspaper articles, and periodicals are among the 60,000 items in the collection.

The State Archives of Florida ...