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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IO_egmont-plantation_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
This site was part of an indigo plantation belonging to the estate of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont. After Lord Perceval's death in 1770, his executors sent Stephen Egan to manage the East Florida estate. Under Egan's supervision, Egmont becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RNL_kings-ferry_Hilliard-FL.html
Side 1
During Florida's British Period (1763-1783), the small trading hamlet of Mills Ferry was established here on the St. Marys River. Mills Ferry was first chronicled in the early 1770s by William Bartram. He noted that the Seagrove & Co. trad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RN6_nassau-county-american-revolutionary-war-memorial_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
In honor of
American Revolutionary War Patriots
who settled in Nassau County, Florida
Burroughs Higginbotham, Soldier
Amos Latham, Soldier
John Tolson Lowe, Lieutenant
James Pelot, Patriot
John Daniel Vaughan, Private
For freedom, we pledg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RN5_peck-high-school_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
(Side 1)
The groundwork for Peck High School started in 1880, when a group led by Henry B. Delaney petitioned for an African American school in Fernandina. In 1885, a four-room building known as Colored School No. 1 opened at Atlantic Avenue and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1Y_historic-florida-railroad_Callahan-FL.html
The Florida Railroad was the state's first cross-peninsular railroad. David L. Yulee, a Florida resident and United States Senator, incorporated the Florida Railroad Company in 1853. Construction of the line began at Fernandina Beach in 1856 and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1H_mount-olive-baptist-church_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
(side 1)
Mount Olive Baptist Church in Nassauville, Florida was established in 1870 by the descendants of West African born, Sam Hooper, and his native American wife. Sam, (aka I. Hupue) who was over 100 years of age in 1864, was the father of Mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R0O_first-home-on-american-beach_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
American Beach was established in January 1935 when the Afro-American Life Insurance Company purchased 33 acres of land with a 1000-foot shoreline. This Masonry Vernacular home was built that year for the president of the company, Abraham Lincoln …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R0L_the-good-shepherd-church-1887-1966_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
In May 1887, the original wood frame building of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Fernandina was given to the black congregation and called Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. The structure was moved to face east on Ninth Street. The rectors of St. Pet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM151Z_marthas-hideaway_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
American Beach, founded in 1935, was a renowned beach for Blacks during the segregation era when African Americans could not go to public beaches. In the early development of American Beach, a few private homes were built, including one hidden dee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14QD_phelan-verot-house-built-prior-to-1866_Fernandina-Beach-FL.html
On February 5, 1875, Jean-Pierre Augustin Verot, Bishop of Saint Augustine, purchased this cottage from Sarah Phelan. The Sisters of Saint Joseph lived here in the year 1877, when a devastating epidemic of yellow fever swept over the Amelia Island…