Unearthing Florida: St. Augustine

While we know that St. Augustine is America’s oldest city, traces of the very first settlement there have only recently been discovered.

In 1565, Spaniard Pedro Menendez landed in St. Augustine with 800 people. He hastily moved into a Timucua ...

Unearthing Florida- Blockade Runners

Confederate vessels that slipped cargo past U.S. naval ships blocking Florida’s seaports were called blockade runners. They faced a constant threat of capture or destruction.

Two such vessels, discovered in the Hillsborough River near Tampa, highlight the risks these smugglers ...

Unearthing Florida: Narcisuss

Throughout the Civil War, Union steamships like the U.S.S. Narcissus played a crucial role in Florida by blockading the coastline, transporting troops, and raiding salt work operations.

Commissioned in 1863 by the U.S. Navy, the Narcissus served as a tugboat ...

Unearthing Florida: Yulee Mill

Built and run by slave labor, the Yulee Sugar Mill was one of many essential industrial operations in Florida that supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The Yulee Sugar Mill near Homasassa was part of a 5100-acre plantation owned ...

Unearthing Florida- The Maple Leaf

In March of 1864, the Union Transport Ship Maple Leaf struck a Confederate mine and sank to the bottom of the St. John’s River near Jacksonville.

Minutes after the deafening blast, the Maple Leaf and its cargo spilled out across ...

Westview Cemetery World War Casualties Memorial

In Memory of World War Casualties

War No. I

Thomas Adjer

Scott Hill

Ollie Rutledge

War No. II

James Joyner

Johnnie M. Leroy

Frank Lewis

John M. McBride

Mayor

Richard A. Shirley

City Manager

John R. Moore, Jr.

Public Works Director

M. Anthony Norris

City Council Members

Beatrice R. Thompson

Thomas W. Dunaway III

James A. Stewart

Dennis H. McKee

Blake ...

123 Tradd Street

Charles Graves House

This three-story masonry single house with hipped roof and Federal style details was constructed for Charles

Graves, a local factor. One of the oldest building along upper Tradd Street, the house is located on portions of Lots ...

126 Tradd Street

The Dr. Peter Fayssoux House

Residence of

the Surgeon General of

the Continnetal Army

and boyhood home of

Confederate Generals

Hamilton Prioleau Bee

& Bernard Bee.

One of only three

South Carolina homes with

early exposed interior

corner post construction,

58 Tradd Street

Cleland-Wells House

This three-story stuccoed single house

was constructed circa 1760 by Charleston

physician Dr. William Cleland as a

residence for his son William. After

William's death the property was

purchased in 1778 by Scottish émigré

Robert Wells, the largest bookseller

and printer in the Southern colonies.

Wells and ...

8-10 Tradd Street

The Lamboll Double Tenement

circa 1726

rebuilt 1781

The masonary structure of this double residence was constructed by Charleston merchant Thomas Lamboll

circa 1726. The date of construction is base on surviving land grants showing the establishment of common use alleys ...