First Public school for Black students in the city.
Leader of the fort and town of Mose.
Fifty more enslaved African people were purchased to take the place of paid and enslaved Indigenous workers at the Castillo de San Marcos...
Ownership of Fort Marion transferred to the National Park Service.
Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.
In 1812 — about one year after the death of Francis Fatio, Sr. — New Switzerland Plantation was burned down.The Fatio family narrowly escaped the fire — an attack by...
Polyglot, Interpreter, Freedom-seeker.
Historic Black cemeteries dating back to the 1800s.
The Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln. In order to rebuild the United States, Lincoln offered to forgive Confederates who swore...
Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ash...
Queen Regent Mariana of Spain orders Nueva España (or "New Spain," now Mexico) to pay for a stone fort to be built in San Augustin...
This treaty between the United States of America and Spain transferred ownership of East and West Florida to the U.S...
After evacuating the residents of the Fort Mose to the Castillo de San Marcos, Captain Francisco Menendez and his militia fight the army of General James Oglethorpe...
The Treaty of Paris trades Havana for St. Augustine, marking the start of the British Period of St. Augustine's history."Great Britain claim Florida through the trea...
Secessionists in Charleston, South Carolina attack federal troops who still occupy Fort Sumter, which is an island fort in the Charleston Harbor. This was the first...
A month before Abraham Lincoln would be sworn in as President, eleven southern states band together to form a new country. These rebel states were (in order of seces...
In return for Spain's military support during the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States of America returned the peninsula of Florida to Spanish...
Union forces take St. Augustine and many of Florida's coastal cities and free many Black people who were enslaved there. Federal troops reclaim the Saint Francis Bar...
Local WWII patriot and Civil Rights activist.
Outdoor exhibit commemorating Civil Rights.
A significant historic community.
Counsel to Seminole Chief Micanopy.
Leader during the First Seminole War.
Built in 1798, revived in 1939.
