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Historic Sites in Florida
Explore 19 historic places in Florida, from museums and landmarks to destinations connected with defining events and eras in American history.
Historic Destinations in Florida
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
St. Augustine, FL
The oldest masonry fortification in the continental United States, built by Spain to defend St. Augustine and its Atlantic approaches.
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Dade Battlefield Historic State Park
Bushnell, FL
A preserved 1835 battlefield where United States troops and Seminole fighters clashed at the opening of the Second Seminole War.
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ACCORD Civil Rights Museum
St. Augustine, FL
A landmark museum in Dr. Robert B. Hayling's former dental office preserving the local struggle that helped propel the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park
Flagler Beach, FL
Atmospheric coquina ruins preserve the remains of a major antebellum sugar plantation destroyed during the Second Seminole War.
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Camp Milton Historic Preserve
Jacksonville, FL
A Jacksonville preserve where surviving Confederate earthworks and interpretive features reveal the scale of Florida's largest Civil War encampment.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
Cape Canaveral, FL
A 151-foot active lighthouse that links Florida's maritime heritage with the launch complexes of Cape Canaveral.
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum
Cape Canaveral, FL
A museum within historic launch complexes that preserves the missiles, rockets and facilities of America's early space program.
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Colonial Quarter
St. Augustine, FL
An immersive living-history attraction that brings St. Augustine's centuries of Spanish and British colonial life to life through demonstrations and reconstructed settings.
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Fort Clinch State Park
Fernandina Beach, FL
A coastal state park centered on a remarkably preserved nineteenth-century fort interpreted as it appeared during the Civil War.
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Fort Foster State Historic Site
Thonotosassa, FL
A reconstructed Second Seminole War fort that protected a vital Hillsborough River bridge and military supply route.
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Fort King National Historic Landmark
Ocala, FL
A reconstructed frontier fort in Ocala interpreting the Second Seminole War, federal Indian removal policy and the origins of the surrounding community.
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Fort Matanzas National Monument
St. Augustine, FL
A preserved Spanish coquina watchtower reached by ferry that guarded St. Augustine's vulnerable southern water approach.
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Governor's House Cultural Center and Museum
St. Augustine, FL
A free museum and cultural center occupying a site that served St. Augustine's colonial governments beginning in the late sixteenth century.
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Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center
St. Augustine, FL
A museum in the former Excelsior High School preserving more than four centuries of African American history in St. Augustine.
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National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at Mission Nombre de Dios
St. Augustine, FL
A historic Catholic mission and pilgrimage site commemorating St. Augustine's 1565 founding and one of the nation's earliest Marian devotions.
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Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park
Sanderson, FL
Florida's largest Civil War battlefield, interpreted through monuments and a trail across the pine landscape where thousands fought in 1864.
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Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park
St. Augustine, FL
A waterfront archaeological park interpreting the Timucua community of Seloy, St. Augustine's first Spanish settlement, and the enduring Fountain of Youth legend.
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Sands Space History Center
Cape Canaveral, FL
A free public history center introducing the launch complexes, artifacts and military space heritage of Cape Canaveral.
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Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park
Jacksonville, FL
A quiet Jacksonville park preserving Civil War earthworks that once guarded the strategically important St. Johns River.
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Historical Eras Represented
Historical Events
1565
Founding of St Augustine
Age of Exploration
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés established St. Augustine on Timucua land in 1565, creating Spain’s first enduring Florida colony and the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States.
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1964
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights
Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed major forms of segregation and discrimination and expanded federal civil rights enforcement.
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1969
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Space Race & Apollo
Apollo 11 carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon, achieving the first crewed lunar landing and returning safely to Earth in July 1969.
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