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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QH_79-bridge-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
The Rudcarlie Building at 79 Bridge Street was built in the 1950's by Dr. Rudolph N. Gordon (1901-1959) and named for the members of his family. Rudolph, Carlotta, and Rosalie. It was the first medical/dental office constructed in St. Augustine wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Q5_8-dr-r-b-hayling-place_St-Augustine-FL.html
The house at 8 Scott Street was built in the 1950s as part of Rollins Subdivision, a new residential area where many prominent black St. Augustinians made their homes. In the early 1960s it was the residence of Dr. Robert B. Hayling and family. A …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Q4_156-m-l-king-avenue_St-Augustine-FL.html
The house at 156 Central Avenue was built in the 1950's for Mrs. Janie Price, a nurse at Flagler Hospital. She had taken her nurse's training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta in the 1940s and while there had attended dances with students from Morehous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PO_177-twine-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
The event that brought the civil rights movement in St. Augustine to international attention was the arrest of Mary Parkman Peabody (1891-1981), the 72-year old mother of the Governor of Massachusetts, for trying to be served in a racially integra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PK_64-washington-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
64 Washington Street was the Florida State Headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during and after the civil rights demonstrations of 1964. SCLC was founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after the successful M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OS_gault-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
Gault Street was one of the historically black residential streets in North City. Many residents worked at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Fountain of Youth, laundries and ice plants that were once located in the area.
Three …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4BQ_reverend-goldie-m-eubanks_St-Augustine-FL.html
Home of Rev. Goldie M. Eubanks, Senior, his wife Hattie and nine children. Humbled by Family and Fatherhood, Leadership and Christian Fellowship, and driven by a cry from within his inner soul to make this world a better place, this self-styled mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3HY_st-francis-barracks_St-Augustine-FL.html
These coquina walls were once part of the Franciscan chapel and friary of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, established by missionaries from Spain. Before these walls rose, thatch-roofed wooden building on this site were burned in 1599, rebui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3HV_florida_St-Augustine-FL.html
Colonized by Spaniards, 1539 · Site of first settlement in U.S., 1565 · Acquired by U.S. from Spain, 1819 · Admitted as 27th state, 1845 · Now nation's fastest growing state · 1963 population 5,639,900 · S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3HQ_ponce-de-leon-hotel_St-Augustine-FL.html
The magnificent structure was erected between 1885 and 1887 by Henry M. Flagler, the hotel and railroad magnate whose activities contributed greatly to the development of Florida's eastern coastal area. Designed by the New York architectural firm …