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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTH_solla-carcaba-cigar-factory_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory, completed in 1909, is the last remnant in St. Augustine of the cigar industry, whose local origins date to the 1830s. Political unrest drove many Cuban cigar makers to Florida after 1868. Their numbers in St. Augus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GR2_first-baptist-church-of-st-augustine_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Established in 1872 through the efforts of Mrs. Hannah Jordan, a devoutly Christian sojourner who, like its first pastor, Rev. Father C. Felder, believed in leading by the example of hard work. The church has flourished at this location—sinc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GR1_fernandez-llambias-house_Saint-Augustine-FL.html
This house was already extant in 1763, when Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain. It was then a one-story, two-room, shingle-roofed coquina stone structure owned by Pedro Fernandez. A British owner added the loggia.
In 1784, when the Spanish retu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQZ_gonzalez-alvarez-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
For more than three centuries this site has been occupied by St. Augustinians. Beginning about 1650, a succession of thatched wooden structures were their homes. This coquina stone house was built soon after the English burned St. Augustine in 170…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQX_tovar-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The infantryman Jose Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant, lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, Jose Coruna, a C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQW_st-marys-missionary-baptist_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This church was founded on May 25, 1875, and led by the inspiring Reverend Ivory Barnes, its first minister. The present edifice, occupied beginning in 1937, has held high the banner of Christ. Inspired in its earliest days by the spirit of The Em…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQV_shiloh-missionary-baptist-church_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This spiritual and civic citadel was established in 1929 with Rev. R.H. Whittaker as spiritual leader, and Chairman of the Board of Deacons, D.P. Mims. This church, the gateway to New Augustine, experienced phenomenal growth under the inspired lea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ8_twine-park_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Henry L. Twine (1923-1994) and his wife Katherine "Kat" Twine (1925-2002) were longtime Lincolnville residents and prominent community leaders for who this neighborhood park was named. They were both active in the civil rights movement a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ6_elks-rest_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Fountain of Youth Lodge No. 649, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World and Pride of Fountain of Youth Temple No. 413. Completed in November 1958.
This lodge, called Elks Rest, was at the early center of political and civil life of linc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ4_zora-neale-hurston_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Noted author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) rented a room in this house in 1942. One of the few surviving buildings closely linked with Hurston life, it is an example of frame Vernacular construction, with cool, north-facing porches on both floors…