Lloyd Railroad Depot

One of the stations on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, the c.1858 Lloyd Depot was a center for trade and transportation in Jefferson County, including military usage for Confederate soldiers and war materials. It is one of only three known ...

Riverside Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of local Confederate soldiers, including Robert W. Adams who served as a first lieutenant with the 5th Florida Infantry in the eastern theater including the Battle of Gettysburg, and later spent six months as a ...

The Quincy Academy State Historical Marker

A State Historical Marker is located at the building constructed in 1851 to house the Quincy Academy, a private educational institution for children of Gadsden and surrounding counties. During the Civil War, the building was used as a Confederate military ...

Soldiers Cemetery in Eastern Cemetery

This cemetery was established early in the Civil War for Confederate soldiers who had no family in Quincy and were too far from home for their bodies to be returned to their families. Located in the cemetery, a State Historical ...

Smallwood-White House State Historical Marker

A doubled-sided State Historical Marker for The White House/Pleasants Woodson White contains details on this house which was constructed in 1843 and remodeled to its present appearance in 1856. During the Civil War, this house was the residence of Pleasants ...

Dudley Farm Historic State Park

This historic state park is a unique remaining example of a historic Florida farm from the mid-1800s. Located on a 333-acre site, this typical early Florida farm served three generations of the Dudley family. The patriarch, Philip Benjamin Dudley, Sr., ...

Oak Ridge Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of at least 105 Confederate soldiers and veterans, including Madison Starke Perry, Governor of Florida from October 1857 to October 1861. This includes the Confederate Section of the cemetery, which contains 31 graves with markers ...

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History-University of Florida

The P.K. Yonge Library, in the George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special and Area Studies, is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection. It includes a diverse array of primary sources, and is the most comprehensive repository for early Florida newspapers. ...

Old Gainesville Depot

A portion of this building was constructed circa 1860. It is the only remaining Civil War railroad depot from the Florida Railroad line which ran from Fernandina to Cedar Key. During the Battle of Gainesville on August 17, 1864, Union ...

Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation

The Thomas Evans Haile family moved from Camden, South Carolina to this site in 1854 to establish a 1,500-acre Sea Island cotton plantation which they named Kanapaha. Built by enslaved black craftsmen, the main house was completed in 1856.

During ...