Saint Stephen's School and Parish

Saint Stephen Catholic Church and Parish was founded in 1922. As a part of its commitment to Catholic Education, the parish opened a school in 1934, serving about 150 students. Benedictine Sisters from Cullman, Alabama, ran and taught at the ...

Little Flower Parish and School

Little Flower Parish and School located in the Myrtle Grove area of West Pensacola, was founded in 1945 and 1946 respectively-- the latter by four Dominican Sisters from New York. Converted Old World War II barracks served as the original ...

FDR Memorial

Dedicated on May 3, 1997, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial celebrates the profound legacy of courage, optimism and social conscience credited to the 32nd president of the United States. The memorial depicts Roosevelt's influence over twelve years of American history, ...

St. Thomas More Catholic Church

St. Thomas More Catholic Church began as a small, four-room building in 1954.

Construction of a new church began in 1955 and by Christmas of the following year, the parish celebrated its first Mass in the unfinished building. The construction ...

Old Sacred Heart Hospital

Founded in 1915, Sacred Heart Hospital was the joint effort of a group of local citizens and the Daughters of Charity.

The Daughters of Charity is a religious community of women founded by Elizabeth Bailey Seton in 1633 dedicated to caring ...

Fort Rupert

Fort Rupert was the first trading post established by the Hudson Bay Company in North America.

Originally chartered in 1670 as the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England" the company acted as the provisional government of most of colonial Canada ...

Old City Cemetery

Opened in 1852 on land donated by steamboat captain Charles Willey, the Old City Cemetery was the primary burial ground for Jacksonville's pre-1880 residents. Sections were dedicated for Freedmen, confederate soldiers, Jews, masons and Catholics. Members of Jacksonville's pioneer black ...

Old Brewster Hospital

Built in 1855, this Victorian style residence was sold in 1901 to the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.

Here, the Missionary Society established the first Jacksonville hospital for blacks and the first training facility for black nurses. ...

The Norman Studios

In the 1920s, Richard E. Norman (1891-1960) a white filmmaker and distributor of silent films, produced a number of works using all African American casts and crews. This was during the era of a rising racism, including the resurgence of ...

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Jacksonville

After the Civil War, several dozen freedmen formed the Society for Religious Worship and were formally recognized in 1866 as the Mount Zion AME Church. A 1901 fire destroyed their brick sanctuary which seated 1,500 worshippers. Within months the church ...