Florida State University Libraries-Strozier Library

The University Libraries' Special Collections Department contains

a variety of manuscript material relating to Florida in the Civil War.

The collections include period letters, diaries, memoirs, family papers, official documents and correspondence, Confederate paper money, and other miscellaneous related items.

Florida Historic Capitol

Restored to its 1902 appearance in 1978-1982, the Old State Capitol building still retains at its core the original 1845 brick building. The Florida Secession Convention convened at this

location and, on January 10, 1861, voted to secede from the ...

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History-University of Florida

The P.K. Yonge Library, in the George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special and Area Studies, is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection. It includes a diverse array of primary sources, and is the most comprehensive repository for early Florida newspapers. ...

Fort Pickens - Florida

Fort Pickens is one of a number of fortifications that protected naval facilities located inside Pensacola Bay. The name is in honor of Revolutionary War hero General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina.

The Pensacola Navy Yard was begun in 1825, ...

Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida

In 1918, Sister Vincent, Sister Aloysius, and Sister Margaret Mary came to Pensacola to assist Father Hartkoff in ministering to black and Creole families. In 1928, the Bureau of Catholic Charities opened and over the coming decades, the agency expanded ...

Unearthing Florida- Miami Circle

At the mouth of the Miami River, in the heart of downtown, is an incredible archaeological site, the Miami Circle.

This ancient site was discovered in 1999 doing a survey before new construction. It was something archaeologist Robert Carr had ...

Unearthing Florida- Mission San Luis

Buried just beneath the red clay soil of the Tallahassee hills lies the remains of almost a dozen thriving Spanish Catholic missions.

Shortly after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, missions were established along the Atlantic coastal plain and ...

Unearthing Florida- Emanuel Point Ship Wreck #1

In shallow water near downtown Pensacola lies the second oldest shipwreck ever found in US waters.

It was part of the 1559 Luna Expedition. Tristan de Luna was a conquistador ad governor charged with establishing the first Spanish settlement north ...

Rosewood Florida Heritage Marker

This town was the site of an African American massacre in 1923. Following a false accuasation by a white woman, white men from the Cummer Lumber Company in Sumner were joined by other whites from as far away as Georgia ...

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. ...