Florida Education Association: The Beginning

Florida teachers and administrators numbering 700 met here in Chautauqua Hall for a "teachers institute" called the Florida Chautauqua. The meeting was called to order by J.A. Graham, City Superintendent of Schools, Key West, at 12:30 p.m., on Thursday March ...

Florida

Settled early 1700’s and originally called Brooklands renamed Florida - from the Latin word, Floridus, which means covered with flowers.

Marker is on North Main St (New York Route 17A) 0.1 miles east of Meadow Road (County Route 25), on ...

Intersection of Carolina West Florida, and Savannah Lower Creek

Traditional Indian village site and burial grounds.

Early white settlement and haven for refugee families in 1812 Indian alarms.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 80 and Balls Ferry Road (Georgia Route 112), on the left when traveling east ...

Old West Florida

Area to south, originally part of French Louisiana, became West Florida under England and Spain. After West Florida Revolution annexed by U. S. and in 1812 was added to the Mississippi Territory.

Marker is on U.S. 49 ¾ mile north ...

City of San Antonio, Florida

Judge Edmund F. Dunne, ex-Chief Justice of Arizona, founded the Catholic Colony of San Antonio, Florida in 1881. Judge Dunne was a distinguished Catholic layman, a famous jurist, an editor, linguist, horticulturist, world traveler, and life long scholar and educator.

British West Florida, 1764-83

Colony’s north boundary

crossed present-day

Alabama - Mississippi

at this point on 32° 28’

by edict of British king.

Colony extended south to Gulf.

France had ceded area in 1763.

Spain invaded, seized area in 1780.

Britain ceded it ...

Steam Engine of the Florida Manufacturing Company

Across Range Street, this Unit was used in Cotton and Peanut processing until 1919 and later carried to Taylor County for use in the Lumber Industry. With a 5-foot Piston Stroke and a 16-foot Drive Wheel, this 500 HP Engine ...

Rosewood, Florida

Racial violence erupted in the small and quiet Rosewood community January 1-7, 1923. Rosewood, a predominantly colored community, was home to the Bradley, Carrier, Carter, Goins, and Hall families, among others. Residents supported a school taught by Mahulda “Gussie” Brown ...

Century, Florida / Alger Railroad

Century, Florida

Founded in 1900 to house mill employees of the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, formed in 1900 by General Russell A. Alger - Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and President McKinley's Secretary of War - and by Martin H. Sullivan of ...

Los Floridanos

Florida's First European Families 1565-1763

"Los Floridanos" referred to the children born to the Spanish settlers of St. Augustine during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). Translated it means "The Floridians" and record of this title can be found in many Spanish ...