The Hebrew Institute and Education

Established in this 1889 Romanesque Revival structure under the original name of the Hebrew Institute, the organization's mission was to help "Americanize" newly arrived immigrants. It offered classes in English, as well as the only free library in the city ...

Delancey Street

Delancey Street is named after James De Lancey, Sr., whose farm was located in what is now the Lower East Side. De Lancey and his family remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution and lost their property after ...

Highlands Hammock State Park

One of Florida´s oldest parks, opening to the public in 1931, this park was established when local citizens came together to promote the hammock as a candidate for national park status. During the Great Depression, just prior to World War ...

Gasparilla Island State Park

Separated from the mainland by Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island Sound, this island is part of a chain of Gulf Coast barrier islands. The centerpiece of Gasparilla is the restored Boca Grande Lighthouse built in 1890. Swimming, snorkeling, fishing, and ...

Jessie Ball duPont Park

Jessie Ball duPont (1884-1970) and her husband, Alfred, became winter residents of Jacksonville in 1927. The duPonts and Jessie's brother, Edward Ball, had many business interests in Florida. She was personally involved in the Florida National Bank, the St. Joe ...

Doggett-Tucker House

The Doggett-Tucker House is the childhood home of Carita Doggett Corse (1891-1978), daughter of Judge and Mrs. John Locke Doggett. Corse is best remembered for her service as the Florida State Director of the Federal Writers' Project, part of the ...

Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

Nina M.H. Cummer (1875-1958) was instrumental in developing and nurturing the arts in Jacksonville. She commissioned the Olmsted Brothers firm to design Memorial Park in Riverside and founded the Garden Club of Jacksonville.

Cummer is best known as the founder of ...

Florida Sports Hall of Fame and Museum of Florida Sports History

"Florida Women's Heritage Trail"

Exhibits and video displays highlight some of Florida's great women athletes, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), called the "Greatest Woman Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century" by the Associated Press;

Althea Gibson (1927-present) ...

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park

U.S. Air Force Colonel Fred Gannon was instrumental in transforming this site from a bombing practice range during World War II to a picturesque state park. The property now preserves beautiful old-growth longleaf pine trees, several over 300 years old, ...

Robert Manning Strozier Library Florida State University

Florida Women's Heritage Trail

Lois Lenski (1893-1974) was an author and illustrator of almost 100 books and illustrated more than 50 books by other writers. In 1946 she won the coveted Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to literature ...