Home of the Bell family, pioneering activists.
Home of Mrs. Rena Ayers, Civil Rights Housemother.
Home of Loucille Plummer, unwavering activist.
Home of the Reddicks, local leaders.
Home of Reverend and Mrs. Halyard, community leaders.
Former SCLC headquarters.
Previously the Lincolnville Public Library.
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.
Renovations are complete at the O'Reilly House, and the Sisters of St. Joseph begin teaching students there. Their classes would outgrow the house in only four month...
Center of defense and heritage.
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.
Lincolnville hub during Civil Rights Movement.
One of the city's oldest structures.
Martha B. Aikens is hired as the Castillo de San Marcos Superintendent. She was the first Black person to hold this position and said people had a "wait and see" att...
"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...
Source: National Park Service...
Florida Normal and Industrial Institute (now known at Florida Memorial University) moves to St. Augustine from Jacksonville.
Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.
Dedicated to honoring the local activists who were the driving force in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement, this bronze monument stands in St. Augustine's Plaza d...
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...
Built by St. Johns County, Excelsior was the first public high school for Black students...
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...
Anthropologist, author, preserver of memories.
An account of Fort Mose is published in The Journal of Negro History, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
