Worm Grunting

EVERYONE HAS HEARD OF SNAKE CHARMING,

BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT EARTHWORMS COULD BE CONJURED AS WELL?

ONE OF THE MORE MYSTERIOUS OCCUPATIONS FOUND

IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA'S DENSE FORESTS,

WORM GRUNTING IS A METHOD OF HARVESTING

WORMS FOR FISHING BAIT.

GRUNTIN' INVOLVES DRIVING A WOODEN ...

Establishment of Tallahassee, Capitol of Florida

EVER WONDER WHY TALLAHASSEE IS FLORIDA'S CAPITAL?

IT GOES BACK TO WHEN FLORIDA BECAME

AN AMERICAN TERRITORY IN 1821.

THE UNITED STATES ACQUIRED WHAT HAD BEEN

TWO COLONIES, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA,

WITH CAPITALS IN ST. AUGUSTINE AND PENSACOLA.

THE ...

Canopy Roads

PASSING BENEATH THE LATTICED BRANCHES OF OUR CHERISHED CANOPY ROADS, THE INFORMED COMMUTER WILL FIND THE ARBORS INTERLACED WITH FLORIDA HISTORY.

SOME OF THE CANOPY ROADS WITHIN LEON COUNTY RETRACE PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN PATHWAYS, EUROPEAN EXPLORATION, PLANTATION LIFE, AND HUNTING TRAILS. ...

Theresa Coffey

Theresa Coffey lived in Guantanamo Bay when the Navy stationed her father there from 1961 to 1963. At age 13, she experienced the evacuation of the civilians from GTMO during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Daline "Dee" Riley

Daline "Dee" Riley lived on Mobile Point, Guantanamo Bay, while her father served there in the late 1960s.

Evergreen Park Cemetery

With nearly 3,300 burial plots, this is one of the oldest black cemeteries in Dade County. Most remains are placed in above-ground vaults, a tradition in the area's black community.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Home of the oldest black congregation in Miami, Greater Bethel AME Church was organized in 1896, several months before the city was incorporated. Construction of this Mediterranean Revival style building began in 1927 and was completed in 1942. It is ...

Bethel African American Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda

"Uncle Dan" Smith, a local African American religious leader constructed a thatch-roofed hut church on this site in 1886. Several white families, including Colonel Albert W. Gilchrist, who later became governor of Florida, were in attendance at the first service. ...

Garfield Cemetery

Dating back to the late-19th to mid-20th century, an archeological survey of this African American cemetery has found 13 marked graves.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Old Macedonia Colored Church

On February 18th, 1907, Murray E. and Sara Braddock Hall, members of early white families, donated land for the Macedonia Colored Baptist Church in Sebastian. A church was built in 1908 and later named Macedonia Baptist Church, to serve blacks ...