The E.O. Douglas School Marker

Built in 1957, the E.O. Douglas School was an all-black school named for the citizen activist and president of the First National Bank. The old wooden school building was originally located on Harris Street. Following integration, the final structure on ...

Springhill Baptist Church and Cemetery

The oldest church in Taylor County, Springhill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1853 in the area then known as Rosehead. In 1923 the church was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and many families fled the area in ...

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Framed in forests of mangrove trees, the shell mounds and ridges of Mound Key rise more than 30 feet above the waters of Estero Bay. Prehistoric Native Americans are credited with creating this island's complex of mounds with an accumulation ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park

Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant, and his family and crew were shipwrecked near Hobe Sound in 1696 and walked the coast to St. Augustine. Dickinson's journal describes encounters with Native Americans and Spanish settlers along the coast and provides a ...

Big Talbot Island State Park

Named during the British period and originally used by the British grantees for plantation agriculture, including citrus, sugar, indigo, and cotton, Big Talbot Island was used by Spanish settlers during the following Second Spanish period.

Located on one of Northeast ...

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park

The area of Payne's Prairie is rich in history.The many archaeological sites within or adjacent to the prairie demonstrate that it was used by Native Americans at least 7,000 years ago. Cuscowilla, one of the largest and earliest (ca. 1740-1830) ...

Georgianna Church

Georgianna United Methodist Church was built in the community of Georgiana on Merritt's Island in 1886. The ringing of the church bell still marks the beginning of worship as it has for many decades. Franklin C. Allen, Jr., a local ...

Georgiana Railway

In 1892, Frank Cass Allen, a Georgiana merchant, began building a 0.6-mile standard-gauge railway with steel rail and wood ties across Merritt Island at this location, connecting docks on the Indian and Banana rivers. It was part of his private ...

Eastside Cemetery

This burial ground honors veterans, family patriarchs and matriarchs, and past generations of the White Springs African American community.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

National Historic Landmark- Wolf Mountains Battlefield

Wolf Mountains Battlefield / Where Big Crow Walked Back and Forth

The Battle of Wolf Mountains, January 8, 1877, was a major turning point in the Great Sioux War in that it resulted in the eventual surrender, just a few ...