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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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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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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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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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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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