National Historic Landmark- Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Brown Chapel was the headquarters of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and the starting point of ...

National Historic Landmark- Bethel Baptist Church

The Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse are associated with the first organized movement of the modern civil rights movement that attacked multiple aspects of segregation.

While earlier organized movements focused on bus segregation, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...

National Historic Landmark- Barton Hall

Constructed in the 1840s, this is an unusually sophisticated Greek Revival style plantation house with small Doric entrance and limestone-paved rear courtyard.

The interior contains one of the South's most breathtaking stairways, climbing in a series of double flights and ...

National Historic Landmark- Apalachicola Fort Site

The northernmost Spanish outpost on the Chattachoochee River, the wattle-and-daub blockhouse was completed in 1690 to prevent the English from gaining a foothold among the Lower Creek Indians, who had rejected Spanish missionaries and accepted English traders. The post was ...

National Historic Landmark- U.S.S. Alabama

Commissioned in August 1942, the 35,000-ton ALABAMA is one of only two surviving SOUTH DAKOTA class battleships built as part of America's preparations for war should it come.

ALABAMA spent 40 months in active service in the Pacific during the Second ...

Unearthing Florida- Miami Circle

At the mouth of the Miami River, in the heart of downtown, is an incredible archaeological site, the Miami Circle.

This ancient site was discovered in 1999 doing a survey before new construction. It was something archaeologist Robert Carr had ...

Unearthing Florida- Mission San Luis

Buried just beneath the red clay soil of the Tallahassee hills lies the remains of almost a dozen thriving Spanish Catholic missions.

Shortly after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, missions were established along the Atlantic coastal plain and ...

Unearthing Florida- Emanuel Point Ship Wreck #1

In shallow water near downtown Pensacola lies the second oldest shipwreck ever found in US waters.

It was part of the 1559 Luna Expedition. Tristan de Luna was a conquistador ad governor charged with establishing the first Spanish settlement north ...

Saint Joseph Catholic Parish and School

Originally part of St. Michael's Parish, St. Joseph's School for Creoles and St. Joseph's School for the Colored opened in 1877.

In the late 1880s, Mrs. Mercedes Sunday Ruby, petitioned Bishop Jeremiah O'Sullivan of the Mobile Diocese to establish a ...

Sacred Heart Cathedral Church

Sacred Heart Parish was established in the East Hill section of Pensacola in 1905 to meet the growing demand for a Catholic Church in the area. The first church was near completion when it was destroyed by the Hurricane of ...