Naples Railroad Depot

Naples' first railroad passenger station, the Naples Depot was built in 1927 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. This historic downtown landmark serves today as a branch of the Collier County Museum and is being restored to its 1920s appearance. ...

Macedonia Baptist Church

The oldest African American church in Naples, this church was organized in 1929, and relocated to its present site in 1952. The new, Gothic-style church building was dedicated in 1954, the annex was built in 1973, and the church was ...

Punta Gorda Railroad Depot and Museum

The Atlantic Coast Line Depot, built in the Mediterranean Revival architectural style, was the southernmost station in the U.S. when it opened in the late 1920s. Segregated bathrooms and waiting areas as originally designed, and a refurbished ticket office are ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda

"Uncle Dan" Smith, a local African American religious leader, constructed a thatch-roofed hut church on this site in 1886. Several white families, including Colonel Albert W. Gilchrist, who later became governor of Florida, were in attendance at the first service. ...

The Blanchard House Museum of African American History & Culture

This 1925 house was originally built for Joseph Blanchard, a black sea captain and key member of early Punta Gorda's business community, and Minnie, his mail-order bride. Upon the death of Blanchard's last surviving daughter, African American community historian Bernice ...

Cleveland Steam Marine Ways

George Brown came to the Peace River area in 1890 to work for a phosphate mining company. During the 1890s he was superintendent of buildings for the Desoto Phosphate Mining Company in Liverpool, near Arcadia. He later founded the Cleveland ...

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Site

This address was once home to the SMC Cartage Company, site of one of the most infamous gangland killings in American history.

On February 14th 1929, seven men associated with Bugs Moran's North Side Gang were murdered by gunmen hired ...

National Historic Landmark-Slater Mill

National Historic Landmark-Old Slater Mill

Here, Samuel Slater (1768-1835) perfected America's first successful water-powered spinning machine in 1790, and helped to build the country's first successful cotton mill in 1793.

His mill is operated as a museum.

Courtesy National Park Service National ...

National Historic Landmark-Ocean Drive Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Ocean Drive Historic District

This large historic district includes the south-western tip of Rhode Island -- not the state, but the island on which Newport is built.

It has a rugged, informal character, as compared with the formal ...

National Historic Landmark-Nightingale-Brown House

National Historic Landmark- Nightingale-Brown House

Architecturally, this is one of the finest Georgian houses in America.

In style, it summarizes and concludes that period of late Georgian architecture in Providence; in size and quality, it is distinguished even among its neighboring ...