History of the New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins In 1830, William Kemble entered into a contract to construct a steam-operated sugarcane mill and a sawmill for merchant speculators William DePeyster and...
History of the New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins In 1830, William Kemble entered into a contract to construct a steam-operated sugarcane mill and a sawmill for merchant speculators William DePeyster and...
Military History of St. Johns Bluff The Spanish American War Battery was a fort built during the Spanish-American War. It is located on St. Johns Bluff, southeast of the former Fort Caroline site...
Braden Castle The Braden Family Dr. Joseph Addison Braden, son of Robert and Elizabeth Stevens Braden, was born around 1811 in Loudoun, Virginia. He had eight other siblings, and he was the youngest...
Old Clay County Jail The Old Clay County Jail in Green Cove Springs, Florida, was built in 1894 by the Pauly Jail Company and is the second oldest, still-standing jail in the state. St. Augustine’s...
The Stewart Homestead Several miles into Green Swamp sits the old homestead of Isham “Isom” and Sarah “Sallie” Browning Stewart, and the site of their murders. The story is...
Lincolnville St. Benedict the Moor School is a former Black Catholic primary school located in the Lincolnville Historic District of St. Augustine, Florida, named for Saint Benedict Manasseri, the...
Early History of Fort George Island Known as the Thomson Tabby House, this is the foundation of a home that Charles R. Thomson had begun constructing on Fort George Island in Jacksonville but was...
Benjamin Chaires Sr., Plantation Owner Verdura was a large cotton plantation of 9,440 acres located in eastern Leon County near Tallahassee and established by Benjamin Chaires. Benjamin...
George Franklin Drew The town of Ellaville was a once-thriving mill town founded in the 1860s by lumber magnate and Florida State Governor George F. Drew. George Franklin Drew was born on August 6...
Hamilton Disston, c.1870 Hamilton Disston was an industrialist and lesser-known figure in Florida’s history who purchased four million acres of Florida land in 1881. His land purchase and...
Suwannee Springs Suwannee Springs near Live Oak is the site of a former historic mineral spring tourist attraction and hotel that monetized this natural resource. Back in the 19th century, Florida...
Arthur A. Stivender Arthur Abrehart Stivender was born on June 8, 1842, in Barbour County, Alabama, to Duncan Wright Stivender and Margaret Gillie Ann Lee. After her husband died in 1860, Margaret...
The Ybor City smuggling tunnels are perhaps one of the greatest urban legends in Tampa, miles of tunnels underneath the city are rumored to have been used during the prohibition era to move liquor...
The Town of Sebring The Kenilworth Lodge is a historic hotel built by George Eugene Sebring in the town of Sebring, Florida, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 2000...
The church was built around 1885 with some of the original pews built out of tree stumps. The small town of Island Grove was established in 1882 by W.J. Moore and built the first post office there...
Jackass Crossing The intersection was called “Jackass Crossing,” named for the ranchers who would come riding in on their burros. The story of why the name changed depends on who you ask...
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