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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EVB_the-st-augustine-foot-soldiers-monument_St-Augustine-FL.html
(Front panel)Dedicated to those who participated in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in St. Augustine. They protested racial discrimination by marching, picketing, kneeling-in at churches, sitting-in at lunch counters, wading-in at beaches, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EJF_st-paul-a-m-e-church_St-Augustine-FL.html
"According to HIS Divine Light. To Each Of Us, God Has Given A Talent; Some to Lead, Some to Follow, Some to Build!" In January 1904, plans were made to build the present church. Rev. E.F. Williams is remembered as architect and builder. He utt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EI5_st-johns-railway_St-Augustine-FL.html
This highway follows closely the route of the old St. Johns Railway between Tocoi Landing on the St. Johns River and St. Augustine. Chartered in 1858. It was the first railroad to serve the city. Steam power was temporarily used on the line in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EHT_evergreen-cemetery_St-Augustine-FL.html
Established in 1886 outside the city limits when St. Augustine closed its small urban graveyards due to overcrowding. Evergreen became the region's largest Protestant cemetery of the late 1800's and early 1900s. The design was strongly influenced …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DV6_the-minorcan-heritage_St-Augustine-FL.html
The Minorcans, some 1,300 people of Mediterranean origins, were brought to Florida in 1768 as contract employees to farm a large indigo plantation at New Smyrna, 70 miles south of St. Augustine. Though most came from the island of Minorca off the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CGQ_the-salcedo-house_St-Augustine-FL.html
Here on this site, 42 St. George Street, stood the home of the nation's first Black general, Jorge Biassou, who came to St. Augustine from his native St. Domingue (today the nation of Haiti) in 1796 as an officer of the Spanish militia. General…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C5U_rosario-redoubt_St-Augustine-FL.html
Below here lies a segment of the foundation for the Rosario Redoubt, an eight-foot tall masonry fortification constructed in 1762 along the Rosario Line, which formed a part of the colonial city defensive system.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3X_nine-mile-road_St-Augustine-FL.html
Nine Mile Road was so named because its early eastern terminus at the Kings Road, built in 1775, near U.S. Highway Number 1, is nine miles north of St. Augustine. Between the terminus of Nine Mile Road at the Kings Road and State Road Number 16…
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Founded 1879—Live Oak, FloridaJacksonville, Florida—1892-1918St. Augustine, Florida—1918-1968Miami Gardens, Florida—1968-Present Students of Florida Normal and Industrial Memorial College, in the early 1960s (soon to be …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18LF_el-pueblo-de-gracia-real-de-santa-teresa-de-mose_St-Augustine-FL.html
Great Seal of the State of Florida:"In God We Trust"On the shore of Robinson Creek, 1/4 mile east of this marker, was the site of a Spanish mission for Indians left homeless during the Queen Anne's War.Since 1688, Negro slaves from the English col…
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