Carver-Hill Museum and Fairview Park Complex

The Okaloosa Negro Civic Club established a neighborhood park in the early 1950s. When a new school was built in 1954, Carver-Hill, the old one-room frame lunchroom building was given to the Civic Club by the Okaloosa County School Board.

The St. Luke Church

In 1867 a small band of baptized believers founded what is today known as the St. Luke Baptist Church.

A parcel of land was purchased and in 1890, a wooden church was built. A brick building was constructed in 1921 ...

Renaissance Park

About 8.5 miles northeast of downtown Marianna, this 40-acre wildemess park is filled with artifacts and objects reminiscent of early rural farm life.

Each year in September and December, a community festival takes place as African American tradition bearers demonstrate ...

George Washington High School

George Washington High School began in a wooden building located near Main Street and Avenue G around 1940.

Before the school was built, local black students received instruction in an old house and in a small wooden church in North ...

St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church

On land purchased in 1866, a small wooden structure served as the St. Paul's AME Church for 74 years.

The building of a second, larger wooden structure led to the church as it exists today. The current sanctuary was constructed ...

Rosamond Johnson Monument

Escambia County resident Rosamond Johnson joined the U.S. Army at age 15. He died in the Korean War before his 18th birthday.

Johnson was the first resident from Escambla County to die in that conflict. He died a hero, trying to ...

Mount Zion Baptist Church

The second oldest African American Baptist church in Pensacola, the congregation was organized in August 1880 after a break with John the Baptist Church. The present Romanesque Revival style structure was erected in 1918, after the original building was destroyed ...

Frank Mark Dunn II-St. Michael's Cemetery

Frank Mark II(1910-1995) was born on Christmas day to Frank Mark and Laura Helen Dunn, his father died just three weeks later.

Laura Helen Dunn moved the family to Seattle, Washington where Frank Mark II joined the Army and worked ...

Frank Mark Dunn-St. Michael's Cemetery

Due to his father's job as a stevedore, Frank Mark Dunn (1871-1911)was exposed early on to the maritime industry. Frank Mark was the third child of Edward and Mary Dunn.

He became an apprentice of Bar Pilot's Association of Pensacola ...

Elizabeth Weid-St Michael's Cemetery

Elizabeth Weid (1811-1866), born Elizabeth Rucheimer in Bavaria, Germany, her husband Johann George Weid, a stone mason, and five of their six children arrived at New Orleans in May of 1853 aboard the ship Auguste.

The family left Bremen, Germany ...