Hannibal Square Historic Neighborhood

From its beginning in 1881, African Americans played an integral part of Winter Park's development. The original town plan designated the Hannibal Square neighborhood for homes of African Americans who worked in the groves, hotels, homes, and as carpenters and ...

Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture

Dr. William Monroe Wells, an African American physician, built this hotel in 1926 to provide lodging to African Americans visiting the Orlando area. Second-floor hotel rooms complemented three first-floor store fronts. The adjacent South Street Casino attracted many famous entertainers, ...

Old Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The congregation first met in a shed in 1919, and erected this stone church in 1920. This Romanesque style building now houses the Tabernacle of the Enlightened Church of God.

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Dr. I.S. Hankins House (Private)

This Mediterranean Revival style residence was built in 1935 as the home of Orlando's pioneer black physician who campaigned for improved race relations and black home ownership.

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West Ocala Historic District

Located on Silver Springs Boulevard between Eastbound I-75 and Pine Avenue.

This historic district includes more than 100 buildings that are significant to the African American community that flourished here between 1886 and 1920.

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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Ocala

The only surviving brick 19th century religious structure in Ocala, the present Gothic Revival church stands behind the site of the original white frame building. Construction of the first brick church owned by a black congregation began in 1891 under ...

Howard Academy Community Center

Howard Academy was established in 1886 by the Board of Public Instruction as a grade school for Negroes.

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Fessenden Elementary School

Established in 1868, the school became Fessenden Academy in 1898, in honor of Ferdinand Stone Fessenden, a wealthy businessman from Boston who provided financial support and encouraged the American Missionary Association to sponsor the school. Existing buildings date from the ...

Second Bethel Baptist Church

This frame vernacular style building was completed in 1888 and served as a school for the black community. The pastor, the Reverend Henry Shaw, was the first to minister to the local African American turpentine, sawmill and phosphate workers.

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National Historic Landmark-Graniteville Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Graniteville Historic District

In this community, William Gregg (1800-1867), perhaps the most significant figure in the development of cotton mills in the South, successfully introduced the textile industry to the South before the Civil War.

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