Springhill Baptist Church and Cemetery

The oldest church in Taylor County, Springhill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1853 in the area then known as Rosehead. In 1923 the church was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and many families fled the area in ...

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Framed in forests of mangrove trees, the shell mounds and ridges of Mound Key rise more than 30 feet above the waters of Estero Bay. Prehistoric Native Americans are credited with creating this island's complex of mounds with an accumulation ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park

Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant, and his family and crew were shipwrecked near Hobe Sound in 1696 and walked the coast to St. Augustine. Dickinson's journal describes encounters with Native Americans and Spanish settlers along the coast and provides a ...

Big Talbot Island State Park

Named during the British period and originally used by the British grantees for plantation agriculture, including citrus, sugar, indigo, and cotton, Big Talbot Island was used by Spanish settlers during the following Second Spanish period.

Located on one of Northeast ...

Eastside Cemetery

This burial ground honors veterans, family patriarchs and matriarchs, and past generations of the White Springs African American community.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

National Historic Landmark- Wolf Mountains Battlefield

Wolf Mountains Battlefield / Where Big Crow Walked Back and Forth

The Battle of Wolf Mountains, January 8, 1877, was a major turning point in the Great Sioux War in that it resulted in the eventual surrender, just a few ...

National Historic Landmark- Burton K. Wheeler House

Montana home (1908-23) of a Senate radical of the 1920s and 1930s. The first prominent Democrat to support F.D.R. for the Presidency, he later broke with Roosevelt over the court-packing plan and Lend-Lease.

National Historic Landmark- Virginia City, Montana

Virginia City was the territorial capital of Montana (1865-75) and the site of one of the greatest gold strikes in the West (1863). Today it seems a classic Western ghost town, with many false-fronted buidings which are open as museums. ...

National Historic Landmark- Charles M. Russell House and Studio

Charles Russell was a cowboy with a purpose. Witnessing and participating in the waning days of the legendary American West, he recorded what he saw in paintings and in sculpture. He became one of America's most popular and successful artists, ...

National Historic Landmark- Rosebud Battlefield

Rosebud Battlefield, Montana, is a primary site in the core area of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. According to the multiple property documentation form for the “The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 in Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska, ...