Overtown Neighborhood

Bordered by NW 21st Street, NW 6th Street, NW 1st Avenue and I-95.

One of the oldest neighborhoods in Miami. Overtown began as a community home to African American railroad, street and hotel workers. As early as 1904, the City of ...

New Operation Cooper Street

This is the original site of Baker's Academy, Charlotte County's first African American school. Located in the East Punta Gorda Historical District, in the 1960s, this site was a gathering place and recreation center for the black community.

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Masonic Cemetery

In 1948 a white landowner provided 5 acres of land for an African American cemetery outside of the town of Bunnell. Local groups are working to refurbish this long-abandoned African American cemetery.

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Joseph Green House

Mississippi native Joseph Green settled in Orange Park around 1886, acquiring property in the African American community along McIntosh Avenue. Green constructed the 1,250 square foot, two-story house as his residence around 1893. The house remained in the Green family ...

Buffalo Soldiers Encampment Historical Marker

One of four all-black regiments in the regular army at the outbreak of the Spanish American War, the 10th Cavalry camped at this site on the shore of Lake Wire in the spring of 1898 while awaiting transport to Cuba. ...

Bethel African American Episcopal Church - Palatka

The residents of the community of Newtown organized the Bethel AME church in 1866. This Romanesque Revival style building was constructed by the congregation circa 1908-1912.

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1960s Civil Rights Historic Site Marker

On Saturday, August 27, 1960, forty Youth Council demonstrators from the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP staged a sit-in at the W.T. Grant Department Store, and at Woolworth's Five-and-Ten Cent Store across from Hemming Park.

Seeking access to the whites-only ...

Trinity Presbyterian Church/Happy Workers Day Care

Built in 1929, the Trinity Presbyterian Church/Happy Workers Day Care is important for its link to St. Petersburg's educational, social and religious history. In 1928, the Presbyterian Synod of Atlanta determined that south St. Petersburg should have a church, and ...

Manhattan Casino (Private)

Built in 1925, the Manhattan Casino is significant for its association with Elder Jordan, a local African American entrepreneur, who, with his five sons settled in St. Petersburg in 1904. Jordan and his sons contracted in 1925 to build the ...

Booker High School

Emma E. Booker, a pioneer black educator, was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918, she was principal of Sarasota Grammar School, holding classes in tented halls. The Julius Rosenwald Fund helped build a ...