Daytona Beach Road Course

The Daytona Beach Road Course is one of the most historic raceways in America. Although long ago replaced by the Daytona International Speedway, the original site of local stock-car racing was critical to the modern development of NASCAR.

Designed by local ...

New Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Bagdad Museum Complex)

This church is among the oldest in Santa Rosa County. Carpenters who were sons of the pastor, the Rev. John Kelker, Sr., built the original church.

The current wood frame vernacular structure was built in 1901. Moved to its present ...

St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church

On land purchased in 1866, a small wooden structure served as the St. Paul's AME Church for 74 years.

The building of a second, larger wooden structure led to the church as it exists today. The current sanctuary was constructed ...

Rosamond Johnson Monument

Escambia County resident Rosamond Johnson joined the U.S. Army at age 15. He died in the Korean War before his 18th birthday.

Johnson was the first resident from Escambla County to die in that conflict. He died a hero, trying to ...

Frank Mark Dunn II-St. Michael's Cemetery

Frank Mark II(1910-1995) was born on Christmas day to Frank Mark and Laura Helen Dunn, his father died just three weeks later.

Laura Helen Dunn moved the family to Seattle, Washington where Frank Mark II joined the Army and worked ...

Frank Mark Dunn-St. Michael's Cemetery

Due to his father's job as a stevedore, Frank Mark Dunn (1871-1911)was exposed early on to the maritime industry. Frank Mark was the third child of Edward and Mary Dunn.

He became an apprentice of Bar Pilot's Association of Pensacola ...

Elizabeth Weid-St Michael's Cemetery

Elizabeth Weid (1811-1866), born Elizabeth Rucheimer in Bavaria, Germany, her husband Johann George Weid, a stone mason, and five of their six children arrived at New Orleans in May of 1853 aboard the ship Auguste.

The family left Bremen, Germany ...

The Rosenwald School

Located in what was once the black business district of Panama City, the Rosenwald School served black students in Bay County during segregation. The original building remains on its original site.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Arch Creek Historic and Archaeological Park

Arch Creek Park was created around a natural limestone bridge formation that was once part of an important trail first used by the Tequesta around 2,000 years ago and later by the Seminoles in the 19th century.

Middens dating to ...

Crane Point Nature Center Museums, and Historic Site

Exhibits about Native Americans in the Florida Keys include a 600-year-old dugout canoe.

Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State.

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