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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSBW_william-bartram-trail_St-Augustine-FL.html
At Fort Picolata, Nov. 18, 1765,William Bartram and his father Johnsaw Creek Indian Treaty signed andbegan their Florida plants survey. Erected byThe Wildflower Garden Club of District IVIn loving memory of Lorraine RidgeIn cooperation withFlor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9Q_81-bridge-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
This Victorian house in the historic Lincolnville neighborhood (founded by freed slaves after the Civil War) became a civil rights landmark in 1964. It was a gathering place for people in the movement, where they could meet, rest, seek solace, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9P_former-st-johns-county-jail_St-Augustine-FL.html
This building, designed by architect F. A. Hollingsworth, opened in 1953 as the St. Johns County Jail, replacing an earlier jail building on San Marco Avenue that subsequently became a tourist attraction. A decade later, this building played a pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9O_st-augustine-beach-wade-ins_St-Augustine-FL.html
Some of the most widely-publicized events of the civil rights movement took place at St. Augustine Beach in the summer of 1964, when wade-ins were conducted at what had historically been a beach reserved for "Whites Only". Many courageous local re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9M_10-hildreth-drive_St-Augustine-FL.html
Fullerwood School was built in 1927 and is the only example in St. Augustine of the work of noted architect A. Ten Eyck Brown (1878-1940), famed for his courthouses, banks, and city halls in New Orleans, Miami and Atlanta. His name is on the corne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9L_650-julia-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
This house was built in 2008 by Habitat for Humanity for one of the Ancient City's civil rights heroes, Audrey Nell Edwards. Along with JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer, Samuel White, and Willie Carl Singleton, she was one of the "St. Augustine Four." As you…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9K_262-west-king-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
Leo C. Chase, Sr., who had previously managed the Huff Funeral Home in Lincolnville, opened one of the oldest businesses in St. Augustine, this funeral home in 1955. His son, Arnett Chase, took over after his father's death in 1977. Another son, L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR91_102-m-l-king-avenue_St-Augustine-FL.html
This area in the heart of Lincolnville was associated with black education for nearly a century. This lot was the site of the Presbyterian Parochial and Industrial School, headed by Rev. James H. Cooper. It was demolished in 1940 and the grounds b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR90_94-south-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
This has been the home to the Whites, one of the outstanding families active in the 1963-1964 civil rights movement in St. Augustine. Parents James (a decorated Buffalo Soldier from World War II) and Hattie Lee White both took part in demonstratio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8Z_160-m-l-king-avenue_St-Augustine-FL.html
The southern half of Lincolnville was, in colonial times, a plantation called "Buena Esperanza" (Spanish for "Good Hope"). During the Flagler Era of the 1880s, it was bought by Standard Oil millionaire William Warden and developed as a residential…
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