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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/HM4LF_black-bear-trail_Maitland-FL.html
The Black Bear Trail, so named because it ran through the natural habitat of the black bear, was organized by The Black Bear Trail, Inc., an association of officials of Chambers of Commerce, boards of trade and cities lying along the route of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LE_fort-maitland-maitland-lake-maitland_Maitland-FL.html
Fort Maitlandwas built in November 1838 by Lt. Col. Alexander C. W. Fanning, U.S.A. (1788-1848) on the military road connecting Fort Melon (Sanford) with Fort Gatlin (Orlando) and used as a stockade in the war between the United States and the Sem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LD_first-presbyterian-church_Maitland-FL.html
This congregation was organized in 1882 by ten Presbyterian settlers under the direction of the Rev. W.G.F. Wallace when Maitland was a pioneer hamlet. The church building was constructed in 1883, and it is one of the oldest churches still in use …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LC_veterans-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge_Orlando-FL.html
Dedicated to the gallant men and women who participated in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 16 December 1944 thru 25 January 1945 in Belgium and Luxembourg, the greatest battle ever fought by the United States Army. The Veterans of the Battl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LA_j-p-musselwhite-family_Orlando-FL.html
In memory of and tribute toJ. P. Musselwhite, public spirited citizen, who was the donor of most of the land on the east and north sides of Lake Eola for public park purposes, and his surviving family, Troy C. Musselwhite and Agnes Musselwhite Mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4L9_the-soldiers-the-sailors-the-statesmen_Orlando-FL.html
(Side one): To the honored memory of The Soldiers, The Sailors, The Statesmen of the Confederate states of America. "Time cannot teach forgetfulness when grief's full heart is fed by fame."
(Side two): "Tis wreathed around with glory and 'twill…