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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS9_looking-back_Jacksonville-FL.html
Imagine ... instead of the empty historic building and peaceful riverfront of today, a slave owner's family sits watching from the porch of their comfortable home as cargo-laden boats pass by on the river.
Breezes off the water cool the planter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS2_kingsley-plantation_Jacksonville-FL.html
In the spring of 1814, Zephaniah Kingsley relocated his family to this sea island plantation. Over the next two decades he developed his controversial views on race, society, and slavery.
Kingsley was a successful businessman who had strong opi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRS_jean-ribaut_Jacksonville-FL.html
Jean Ribaut and a party of Huguenots landed the morning of May 1, 1562 on this island. Here they knelt in prayer, beseeching God's guidance and commending the natives to his care. This was the first Protestant prayer in North America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRC_kingsley-plantation_Jacksonville-FL.html
The plantation house symbolizes the owners and their freedom. The cabin ruins stand behind you as a testament to the enslaved and their lives of forced labor.
Explore the plantation grounds and discover the stories of plantation owners and slav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMCS_the-huguenot-memorial-site_Jacksonville-FL.html
In 1562, when France was being torn by religious strife, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, sent two vessels to the New World in search of a refuge for the oppressed Huguenots. Leading the expedition was the Huguenot explorer, Jean Ribaut, who…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMC2_yellow-bluff-fort_Jacksonville-FL.html
A Confederate earthworks designed and located by General Robert E. Lee as one of a series of forts for the defense of the Saint Johns River. This fort was occupied by both Confederate and Union forces during the course of the war and is today in i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAS_site-of-the-mission-of-san-juan-del-puerto_Jacksonville-FL.html
Marker Front:The establishment of missions chiefly for the purpose of Christianizing the Indian population was one of the methods used by Spain in attempting to colonize Florida in the sixteenth century. The Mission of San Juan del Puerto was foun…