Gasparilla Island State Park

Separated from the mainland by Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island Sound, this island is part of a chain of Gulf Coast barrier islands. The centerpiece of Gasparilla is the restored Boca Grande Lighthouse built in 1890. Swimming, snorkeling, fishing, and ...

Allen Street

Once crowded with tenement buildings filled with immigrants, Allen street was also a notorious Red Light District.In its heyday during the early 20th century, Allen street served as a battleground between rival Lower East Side gangs. In 1905, a tenement ...

Marabangong

Thomas Basnett, a noted astronomer from England, built Marabanong. In 1880, he married Eliza Wilber (1850-1930), a scientist and inventor from New York who was the first woman to lecture science students at Harvard.

While living at Marabanong, Eliza Wilbur ...

Jessie Ball duPont Park

Jessie Ball duPont (1884-1970) and her husband, Alfred, became winter residents of Jacksonville in 1927. The duPonts and Jessie's brother, Edward Ball, had many business interests in Florida. She was personally involved in the Florida National Bank, the St. Joe ...

Doggett-Tucker House

The Doggett-Tucker House is the childhood home of Carita Doggett Corse (1891-1978), daughter of Judge and Mrs. John Locke Doggett. Corse is best remembered for her service as the Florida State Director of the Federal Writers' Project, part of the ...

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach

Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, this windswept park is named for Florida folk singer Gamble Rogers. The beach is the most popular feature at this park, where visitors enjoy swimming, sunbathing, beachcombing or fishing. The daily ...

Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

Nina M.H. Cummer (1875-1958) was instrumental in developing and nurturing the arts in Jacksonville. She commissioned the Olmsted Brothers firm to design Memorial Park in Riverside and founded the Garden Club of Jacksonville.

Cummer is best known as the founder of ...

Gamble Plantation Historic State Park

This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters of an extensive sugar plantation. It is the only surviving plantation house in South Florida. It is believed that Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, took refuge here ...

Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail

Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail stretches 16 miles from the city of Gainesville's Boulware Springs Park through the Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and the Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area. The recreational trail is designed for walking, cycling and horseback riding. Parking is ...

Florida Sports Hall of Fame and Museum of Florida Sports History

"Florida Women's Heritage Trail"

Exhibits and video displays highlight some of Florida's great women athletes, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), called the "Greatest Woman Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century" by the Associated Press;

Althea Gibson (1927-present) ...