Orange Park Negro Elementary School

Completed in 1938, Orange Park Negro Elementary School represents one of the few buildings constructed by the school board in the 1930s. Today it is the property of the city of Orange Park.

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Olustee Battlefield State Park

This park commemorates the site of Florida's largest Civil War battle, which took place February 20, 1864. A Union force of approximately 5,200 troops under the command of General Truman A. Seymour marched westward to meet a Confederate force led ...

Old Shadeville High School Marker

In 1931, a black high school for Wakulla County was constructed as an addition to the Shadeville Elementary School. After providing education to black students for 36 years, Shadeville was closed due to school desegregation in 1967. A monument was ...

Rosewood Florida Heritage Marker

This town was the site of an African American massacre in 1923. Following a false accuasation by a white woman, white men from the Cummer Lumber Company in Sumner were joined by other whites from as far away as Georgia ...

Perry Post Office

Florida artist George Snow Hill painted the Cypress Logging mural on canvas in 1938 for the Perry Post Office, as part of the Public Works of Art (WOA) Project during the Great Depression. The panel honors the mostly African American ...

New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church

The New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist congregation, one of Perry's most prominent black churches, formed in 1914. The church was remodeled in 1963 and again in 1989.

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Picture courtesy of New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church.

Jerkins High School

County school board minutes from May 1887 show education for Taylor County blacks came from the roots of Spnng Hili Missionary Baptist Church. Henry R. Jerkins. Jr., principal in 1930, had the most memorable impact. Jerkins arrived not long after ...

African Missionary Baptist Church

The first church was built on the corner of Parshley and Houston Avenue. This Masonry Vernacular building was built in 1910.

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Photo courtesy of Ebyabe.

Four Freedoms Park

In the heart of the Madison historic district is the Four Freedoms Park. Erected in 1909 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a Confederate monument is located in Confederate Square in Four Freedoms Park. A plaque placed on the ...

Ray Charles Memorial at Haffye Hays Park

Greenville is the childhood home of Ray Charles (1930-2004). A full-sized statue commemorates the Greenville life of this world-famous singer, songwriter and composer who attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.

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