Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is situated on granite hills covered with conifer and hardwood forests and streams. The 2,884-acre park is located northwest of downtown Atlanta. The park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, during which ...

This Tablet Commemorates the First Visit of

Abraham Lincoln

This tablet

commemorates the first visit of

Abraham Lincoln

who arrived at this point

on Feb. 14, 1861 remain-

ing in Pittsburgh a few hours

enroute to Washington for

his inauguration.

Marker is at the intersection of Federal Street and South Commons, on the right when traveling ...

Hillel Foundation (University of Florida)

Hillel Houses provide a focus for Jewish social, cultural, and religious life on campuses throughout the nation. Founded in 1937 as the first Hillel in Florida, the present building was dedicated in 1952. This Hillel became a center not only ...

Congregation Sons of Israel (Conservative)

This congregation was founded in 1908 and the synagogue was dedicated in 1923. For decades before that, the Jews of St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach met in homes for religious worship. The synagogue was built in 1923 using stained glass ...

Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery

The oldest unmarked grave in this cemetery is that of a Jewish peddler killed by Indians in 1840. His grave, supposedly beneath a large tree, was the reason why the surrounding land was designated a Jewish cemetery in 1911. The ...

Ahavath Chesed and B'nai Israel Cemeteries, Gate 5 Evergreen Cemetery

Because the Jewish section at the Old City Cemetery was running out of space in 1890, the synagogue acquired three acres adjoining Evergreen Cemetery for Jewish burial. A makeshift fence was placed around the cemetery to set it apart from ...

Jacksonville Jewish Center (Conservative)

Roy Benjamin designed this building in 1927 for the Jacksonville Jewish Center, founded in 1901 as the B'nai Israel Orthodox Congregation. The congregation wanted the building to be both a house of prayer and a social center. A synagogue was ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

Clematis Street Merchants

Now the city's lively main business street, this street was where early Jewish settlers opened retail stores. By the early 1920s, retail stores included Joseph Schulpler's hat store, Cy Argintar's Men's Shop and Toby and Selma Myers' luggage business (at ...

Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University

This Judaica library is one of the largest in the southeastern United

States. A permanent exhibit features Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing desk, chairs, and lamp. In addition, the library has the 1978 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature's walking cane, Panama ...