Smathers Library

This Library has an extensive collection of documents, photographs and other material related to African American history and culture.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Photo courtesy of www.ppd.ufl.edu/historiccampuswebsite

The Mathers

Several generations of great 17th and 18th century New England divines are buried here. Increase (1639-1723), the father; Cotton (1663-1728), the son; and Samuel Mather (1706-1785) the grandson, belonged to a remarkable family of ministers. At a time when the ...