First documented Christian bride in the United States.
Florida's first Civil Rights museum.
This African-American owned bookstore focuses on the literature of the African diaspora.
Florida's first Black general.
Leader during the Second Seminole War.
"The construction of the Castillo de San Marcos is complete. Payroll records show that eleven Africans worked as paid labor."Source: National Park Service...
Center of defense and heritage.
The most prominent Black Seminole leader.
Troops who were stationed in Fort Marion under the Confederacy are ordered to withdraw from St. Augustine. For a few days, the city was empty of military forces...
Juan Ponce de Leon lands in La Florida and claims the land for Spain. Within his party is Juan Garrido, who is thought to be the first free Black person in the Ameri...
Writer, abolitionist, and political leader.
America's most arrested rabbi.
An epidemic kills many of the paid Indigenous workers constructing the Castillo de San Marcos. Thirty enslaved African people were purchased from Havana, Cuba...
"Florida governor Antonio de Benavides establishes the first African American slave militia."Source: National Park Service...
"Eleven enslaved Africans – eight men, two women and a nursing child – escape from the Carolinas and arrive in St. Augustine. Governor Quiroga grants their request f...
The American Statehood Period begins...
With the signing of the Adam-Onís Treaty, Florida went from a Spanish colony to an American territory. To Americans, this opened up what had been an international so...
Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.
Confederate troops occupy Fort Marion (now Castillo de San Marcos). The White citizens of St. Augustine were generally supportive of this change of government, excep...
The original destination of the Underground Railroad.
Twelve years after the original settlment was destroyed, Fort Mose is rebuilt near the site of the original community. Many African-descended residents are ordered t...
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the S...
British forces capture Havana, a major port of the Spanish Empire that was considered far more important than St. Augustine...
Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.
An account of Fort Mose is published in The Journal of Negro History, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.
