National Historic Landmark-Simon Cameron House

National Historic Landmark- Simon Cameron House

From 1863 until his death, this was the residence of Simon Cameron (1799-1889), who served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of War under Lincoln, and Minister to Russia.

Cameron is acknowledged as the master spoilsman who ...

National Historic Landmark-Cambria Iron Company

National Historic Landmark- Cambria Iron Company

Founded in 1852, the Cambria Iron Company is one of only two 19th century steel mills still standing in the nation. The Company's production of iron and steel rail helped end America's reliance on English-produced ...

National Historic Landmark-Bushy Run Battlefield

National Historic Landmark-Bushy Run Battlefield

Fought in 1763, the Battle of Bushy Run was a decisive British victory during Pontiac's Rebellion, the best-organized 18th-century campaign by Native Americans against Anglo-American frontier settlements.

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National Historic Landmark-Buckingham Friends Meeting House

National Historic Landmark- Buckingham Friends Meeting House

Buckingham Friends Meeting House is nationally significant for its role in providing a model for the development of the American Friends? meeting house. Built in 1768, Buckingham was the first meeting house to be ...

National Historic Landmark-Green Hills farm-Pearl S. Buck

National Historic Landmark- Pearl S. Buck-Green Hills Farm

From 1933 until her death, this was the principal residence of noted American novelist Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), the only American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Buck purchased this farm ...

Florida Memorial College

In the late 1800s, the American Baptist Home Mission Society created two colleges in North Florida: The Florida Baptist Institute for Negroes in Live Oak (1879) and the Florida Baptist Academy in Jacksonville (1892). The two institutions merged in 1941. ...

Virginia Key Beach Park

In 1918, D.A. Dorsey, an African American millionaire, purchased what is now known as Fisher Island so that blacks could have a beach of their own during segregation. Due to increasing property taxes, Dorsey sold the property and without a ...

St. John's Baptist Church

The congregation was organized in 1906. The current building, designed by the black architectural firm of McKissack and McKissack, was completed in 1940. The two-story masonry building is a rare example of the Art Deco style in Overtown.

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Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Home to one of the oldest and most prominent black congregations of South Florida, this structure is noted for its Mediterranean Revival design. The Mt. Zion congregation helped raise funds to build Miami's black-owned Christian Hospital.

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The Lyric Theater

Prominent black entrepreneur Geder Walker built this masonry vaudeville and movie theater in 1913. Once one of the major centers of entertainment for blacks, this building is the lone survivor of the Little Broadway district that flourished in Overtown for ...