Florida Railroad Museum

The Florida Railroad Museum is on a mission to acquire, refurbish and operate historic railroad rolling stock, with an emphasis on Florida-routed cars and locomotives.

It's Sunday afternoon at the Florida Railroad Museum in Parrish, and a crowd – toddlers, ...

The University of Central Florida Public History Center

The 1902 Romanesque Revival Style brick building was designed by Architect W.G. Talley of Jacksonville. The two story rectangular brick façade is dominated by a massive three-story bell tower with an open belfry showing Romanesque arches on all four sides. ...

Florida's First African-American Insurance Company--1901-2001

The Afro-American Insurance Company, formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association, was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg, E.W. Latson, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, A.W. Price, ...

Florida Pharmacy Association

1887 1987

[100th Anniversary Medallion]

On June 8, 1887, a group of Florida pharmacists met in Jacksonville at the Board of Trade rooms located at the corner of Adams & Main Streets for the purpose of organizing a state pharmaceutical ...

Hillel Foundation (University of Florida)

Hillel Houses provide a focus for Jewish social, cultural, and religious life on campuses throughout the nation. Founded in 1937 as the first Hillel in Florida, the present building was dedicated in 1952. This Hillel became a center not only ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University

This Judaica library is one of the largest in the southeastern United

States. A permanent exhibit features Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing desk, chairs, and lamp. In addition, the library has the 1978 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature's walking cane, Panama ...

Sterling's Men and Boys Store (Now the Florida Department of Environmental Protection)

Isadore "Pop" A. Sterling ran Fort Lauderdale's first Sterling Store, founded in 1935, in a converted garage on Andrews Avenue. By the

early 1940s, he operated Sterling's Men's and Boys Store at this site. Pop became a town legend, widely ...

Temple Moses Sephardic Congregation of Florida (Orthodox)

Sermons are delivered in Spanish at this Cuban-Sephardic congregation. Dedicated in 1980, the synagogue is a copy of a synagogue in Havana that was abandoned by Jews fleeing Castro. Outside, at the corner of Main and Vichy, a plaque commemorates ...

Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University

Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 1986 to showcase his own collection of more than 70,000 objects from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries with emphasis on furniture and the decorative and propaganda arts. The collection also ...