National Historic Landmark-Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, this was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States.

National Historic Landmark - Okeechobee Battlefield

The three-hour battle at Okeechobee was the largest engagement of the Second Seminole War. Zachary Taylor's decisive victory at Okeechobee on December 25, 1837, marked the turning point in the War and paved the way for General Taylor's political career.

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Mud Lake Canal National Historic Landmark

This site is nationally significant as the best preserved example of a long-distance canoe canal, a rare prehistoric engineering feat. The Mud Lake Canal has the potential to provide nationally significant information of major scientific importance about seasonal movements of ...

National Historic Landmark - Miami Biltmore Hotel

The Miami-Biltmore Hotel and Country Club, one of the most luxurious and modern hotels of its time, opened on January 14, 1926. Designed by the prominent New York architectural firm of Schulze and Weaver, the Miami-Biltmore is Coral Gables most ...

National Historic Landmark- Marjorie Kennan Rawlings House

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House was the home of the acclaimed writer and her first husband, Charles Rawlings, from 1928 to 1953. It was in this house that Rawlings wrote all seven of the books published during her lifetime, including ...

National Historic Landmark - Mar-A-Lago

This sprawling, Mediterranean-style villa, home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, exemplifies the baronial way of life of the wealthy who built mansions in Florida during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.

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National Historic Landmark-Maple Leaf (Passenger Steamer/Wreck)

The sidewheeler Maple Leaf was designed and built in the Marine Railway Shipyard in Kingston, Ontario, and launched in 1851; she worked passenger routes on Lake Ontario prior to being chartered to the U.S. Army in 1862. As an Army ...

National Historic Landmark - Llambias House

Among the few extant structures in Saint Augustine that dates from the first Spanish period, this house reached its final form by 1788. A restored example of organic growth of a dwelling built on a variation of the "St. Augustine ...

National Historic Landmark - Ingham, USCGC

Built in 1936, the 327 foot cutter Ingham is one of two surviving examples of the Secretary-class, a type significant in the U.S. combat response to the German U-Boat threat. Ingham escorted convoys across the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean, ...

National Historic Landmark - Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960), writer, folklorist, and anthropologist, was the most noted black female writer of the mid-20th century. In addition to her four novels, two books of folklore, and an autobiography, Hurston wrote over 50 short stories and essays; ...