Silver River Museum and Environmental Education Center

This hands-on museum is located within the Silver River State Park and is operated by the Marion County School District in cooperation with the park. It focuses on the environmental and human history of Florida.

Displays of artifacts, including tools and ...

Marshall Plantation

A State Historical Marker for the Marshall Plantation Site is located a short distance south of the sugar plantation of Jehu Foster Marshall. From South Carolina, Marshall established his Florida plantation in 1855.

At the outbreak of the war, Marshall returned ...

Confederate Monument - Ocala

This monument was erected in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy beside the Marion County Courthouse in the downtown Ocala Public Square.

Although a new larger county courthouse was constructed in 1965 and then expanded in 1991, the monument ...

Tolomato Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of Union veterans and at least 17 Confederate veterans. Also buried here is Florida Catholic Bishop Augustin Verot, known as the Rebel Bishop for his defense of the Confederate cause.

After the Civil War, Bishop ...

St. Francis Barracks

Originally constructed in the early to mid-1700s, this building was used as a military barracks first for Confederate troops, and then for Union troops after the Federal occupation of St. Augustine in 1862. Now the headquarters of the Florida National ...

St. Augustine National Cemetery

This cemetery contains at least 33 Union troops and veterans, including Union sailors who died while on duty at Egmont Key and whose remains were relocated here in 1909 as part of the nationwide effort to consolidate military burials.

The ...

St. Augustine Historical Society

In addition to the Research Library at the Segui-Kirby Smith House, the Society operates the Oldest House Museum Complex, which includes the Manucy Museum in the 1924 Webb Building. This museum contains exhibits on local and regional history, including a ...

Segui-Kirby Smith House

Constructed in the late 1700s by Bernardo Segui, this was the childhood home of Edmund Kirby Smith, a West Point graduate and the last Confederate general to surrender his command, who was born here in May 1824.

In early 1863, ...

San Lorenzo Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of at least 93 Confederate soldiers and sailors including 3 Black Confederate veterans

who served as musicians in the 3rd Florida Infantry, as well as 7 Black Union soldiers of the U.S. Colored Troops.

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Markland/Anderson House

Constructed in 1839-1842, this house was the residence of Dr. Andrew Anderson II who enlisted in the local Confederate military unit, the St. Augustine Blues, at the outbreak of the war. In early 1862, he paid for a substitute to ...