Florida Hammock Trail

This trail leads through hammock land. The word hammock was an Indian term. This is the way the land looked when it was the free domain of the Indians, the home of wildlife and birds.

The land had to be cleared ...

Florida

1861 - 1865

(Left Side):Their names shall never

forgotten be while honor

calls the roll

(Right Side):Florida's daughters

to her brave sons.

Marker is on Mt Hebron Drive, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

DeBary Hall / Florida Federation of Art, Inc.

(Front side)

DeBary HallBuilt in 1871 by Baron Frederick de Bary. Born 1815 in Germany of Belgian descent, de Bary came to New York in 1840 as agent for Mumm's Champagne. His estate of many hundred acres here in Florida was ...

Florida Brothers Building

Thomas J. Florida established the Florida Brothers Company in 1926, supplying farm and home loans to families along the Cotton Highway. Mr. Florida built this Art Deco-influenced structure in 1935, featuring Indiana limestone. The building subsequently became home for the ...

McCants' Florida Battery.

Maj. Melancthon Smith's Artillery Battalion.

McCants' Florida Battery.

1 10-pdr. parrott, 3 6-pdr. S.B.

Maj. Melancthon Smith's Artillery Battalion.

Cheatham's Division, Hardee's Corps.

Nov. 25, 1863, 4 p.m.

Capt. Robert P. McCants, Commanding

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Perry.

1st Lieut. Andrew J. Neal

2nd Lieut. James C. Davis.

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University of Florida Historic Campus

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Florida

The Sunshine State

Colonized by Spaniards, 1539 • Site of first settlement in U.S., 1565 • Acquired by U.S. from Spain, 1819 • Admitted as 27th state, 1845 • Now nation's fastest growing state • 1963 population 5,639,900 • State song ...

Birthplace for Equal Suffrage for Women in Florida

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