Captain Edmond Edgecumbe-St. Michael's Cemetery

Capt. Edmond Edgecumbe was born in the West Indies on September 13, 1855, and he immigrated to Florida via Key West. In Florida, he became a captain of a snapper boat. The late 1800s and early 1900s the fishing industry ...

James Biddle Lardner-St. Michael's Cemetery

James Biddle Lardner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1808. Lardner joined the Navy as a Midshipman on December 4, 1822 at the age of fourteen, and he may have been assigned to the West Indies squadron monitoring illegal slave ...

Gidien King- St. Michael's Cemetery

Gidien King died in Pensacola on November 15, 1857 in an explosion on the steamboat Tom Thumb. He was 24 years old. Though no other information has been found on Gidien King, he was most likely only passing through Pensacola ...

Bldg. 58, UWF Biology, Chemistry, Clinical Lab Science

With the growth of physics and other sciences at UWF the departments were in need of labs, lecture rooms, and office space.

The architectural firm of Look and Morrison asked the UWF professors if there were any existing facilities, elsewhere, in ...

Bldgs. 90-94, UWF Facilities Services

The Campus Support Services Complex, at the time of occupancy in 1996, housed the Facilities Planning and Management offices and the Physical Plant office in Bldg. 90. In a separate complex adjacent, were the maintenance shops, Bldgs. 91, 92, 93 ...

Bldg. 89, UWF Archaeology Institute

Dr. Margaret Jane Smith, an aeronautical engineer and psychological statistician, began volunteering with UWF after her retirement and led UWF archaeology into the computer age through advising in the application of computer assisted drafting.

The building program for this new ...

Bldg. 81, UWF Campus Information Center

Campus Information Center, occupied in 1982, was a small but significant building. The site chosen was just west of the juncture of University Parkway and Campus Drive. The building program called for a covered drive-up window, two entrances convenient to ...

Bldg. 83, UWF Wetlands Research Lab

Wetlands Research Lab (WRL) is not the biggest building on campus, nor the most important; however, it is representative of the many smaller, support buildings across campus that fill out the needs of what makes up a university. WRL managed ...

Old Fort Braden School

Fort Braden was established in 1839 as a military outpost during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). At the end of the war the fort was abandoned, but the small farming community that had developed nearby continued.

A school in the ...

Florida A&M University

Founded in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is the only historically state supported educational facility for African Americans in Florida. It has always been co-educational.

In 1890, the second Morrill ...