National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

From 1836 until his death, this was the home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), an important literary figure in the ante-bellum period. The brick house which he built here in 1867 was originally a one-story structure, to which ...

National Historic Landmark-Middleton Place

National Historic Landmark-Middleton Place

This property's spacious grounds constitute the first landscaped gardens in America, with molded terraces descending to two butterfly shaped lakes.

The original house was burned by Union troops in 1865, and only one wing, dating from 1755, ...

National Historic Landmark-Woodland Home of Sam Houston

National Historic Landmark-Woodland Home of Sam Houston

From 1847 to 1859, Woodland, a typical Texas hill country cottage of clapboard over logs, was the residence of Samuel Houston (1793-1863), who led the Texas Army to victory at San Jacinto, was President ...

National Historic Landmark-Spindletop

National Historic Landmark - Spindletop Oil Field Lucas Gusher

On January 10, 1901, at Spindletop, a little knoll of land rising out of a swampy prairie, the first great oil gusher roared in.

Lucas Gusher signaled the opening of the vast oil ...

Woodland Park

Woodland Park was located near the city of Sanford on the shores of Lake Monroe. It was run by owner Victor Schmelz and his son from 1910 to the 1920s. In 1909, Schmelz installed an eighty by thirty foot swimming ...

Woodlawn Cemetery - West Palm Beach

In a roundabout at its center, this cemetery contains a Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1941.

Also buried in this cemetery are approximately 30 Union veterans, including Willmon Whilldin of the 6th New Jersey ...

Woodlawn Cemetery

This cemetery contains side by side plots of Confederate and Union veterans each with their own monument. The Confederate monument was erected in 1913 by the United Confederate Veterans and lists the names of the 30 veterans buried there.

The ...

Middleburg

In October 1864, a small Union force of 55 men of the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry conducted a raid on Middleburg from their strongpoint at Magnolia near Green Cove Springs. The raiders

burned warehouses and other buildings, and looted the remaining houses ...

Wardlaw-Smith-Goza House

Prominent Madison County citizen, Benjamin F. Wardlaw, began construction of this house in 1860. The home served as a temporary hospital for Confederate and Union wounded following the Battle of Olustee in February 1864. In May 1865, Confederate Secretary of ...

Dudley Farm Historic State Park

This historic state park is a unique remaining example of a historic Florida farm from the mid-1800s. Located on a 333-acre site, this typical early Florida farm served three generations of the Dudley family. The patriarch, Philip Benjamin Dudley, Sr., ...