Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Established in 1887 as the Florida State Normal College for Colored Students, FAMU is the oldest historically black public university in Florida. The first president, Thomas DeSaille Tucker, and his assistant, Thomas Van Rennasaler, guided the school's beginning including its ...

Florida State Archives

In addition to on site research, the Florida State Archives offers web-based access to an extensive collection of original documents, photographs, and other materials for historical research on state history through the Florida Memory Project at: www.floridamemory.com.

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Museum of Florida Art and Culture

The Museum of Florida Art and Culture contains exhibits on the Native American cultures of the Lake Wales Ridge and Kissimmee Valley, including artifacts from the Blueberry Site. Also at the museum are paintings by Florida artists that interpret Florida's ...

Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida

Exhibits describe the Native American chronology of the Okaloosa and Walton Counties area. Stone tools and projectile points used from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago and pottery made from 4,000 to 2,000 years ago are on display.

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Florida Caverns State Park

One of the few state parks with dry (air filled) caves and the only Florida state park to offer cave tours to the public. The cave has dazzling formations of limestone stalactites, stalagmites, soda straws, flowstones and draperies.

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Historical Museum of Southern Florida

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida tells the stories of people in south Florida and the Caribbean from 12,000 years ago through the present. The Tropical Dreams: First Arrivals exhibit features information and artifacts about southern Florida's first inhabitants and ...

South Florida Museum

This museum houses the famous Montague Tallant Collection, one of the premier collections of Florida aboriginal artifacts from 1,700 years ago through European contact in the 1500s. The Archaic Man display contains artifacts and exhibit panels about people who lived ...

Old Florida Museum

This hands-on museum has exhibits and opportunities that allow guests to participate in daily living activities from pre-European times to the 1900s. The Spanish Fort Mose program includes candle making, rope making, colonial games, corn grinding, woodworking, and other activities ...

Florida Sports Hall of Fame and Museum of Florida Sports History

"Florida Women's Heritage Trail"

Exhibits and video displays highlight some of Florida's great women athletes, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), called the "Greatest Woman Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century" by the Associated Press;

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Robert Manning Strozier Library Florida State University

Florida Women's Heritage Trail

Lois Lenski (1893-1974) was an author and illustrator of almost 100 books and illustrated more than 50 books by other writers. In 1946 she won the coveted Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to literature ...