De Soto Trail

Staking Their Claim

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You are standing along the historic route of the conquistador Hernando de Soto and his expedition through the Florida Native American territories in his quest for gold and glory

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"The Florida Expedition"

Legend:

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Seven Days Battles

Gaines’s Mill

On this hill, facing north, Sykes’s division was posted in the afternoon of June 27, 1862, holding the eastern end of the Union line. Here Jackson attacked, while to the west A. P. Hill and Longstreet renewed their assaults. ...

College Place Historic District

The land on which this district rests was part of the 1818 sale by the Cypress Land Company which established the City of Florence. During The Civil War Confederate soldiers constructed breastworks here for the defense of Florence. House construction ...

Historic Roads And Indian Trails

At this point, two historic roads, the Darien to Milledgeville and the King Road, merged to form what is now Highway 301. The Darien to Milledgeville Road, established before 1816, later became a part of the Darien to Macon Stage ...

Lone Cedar Church of Christ 1898

Christians first met here in a log building which also served as a schoolhouse. In 1909 a frame building was constructed. Because of a single cedar tree in prominent view, it was given the name Lone Cedar by Wilbert M ...

U.S. Colored Troops Grand Review

Excluded from a May 1865 "Grand Review of the Armies" in Wash., DC, U.S. Colored Troops from Penna. and Mass. regiments assembled here at State and Filbert Sts. on Nov. 14, 1865 for a parade honoring their courage during the ...

Soldier’s Monument

The ground at this intersection, “Historic Crossroads of the American Revolution,” had long been a grassy triangle. In 1908 Charles E. Suffern gave the village this cannon, and the stone wall was built around it. Some residents, disliking the new ...

Ruskin College President's Home

Ruskin College opened in 1910 as a coeducational industrial and liberal arts college. It was located on part of a large tract of land purchased by Dr. George McAnelly Miller beginning in 1907 for the purpose of establishing a cooperative ...

Historic Cold Harbor Road

In this location ran the original road from Mechanicsville to Cold Harbor. The bridge that crossed Beaver Dam Creek was destroyed by Union troops prior to the June 26, 1862, battle.

Marker can be reached from Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route ...

Monuments and Markers

"The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

President Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address

To ensure that succeeding generations would remember and understand what happened at Gettysburg, veterans of the battle, ...