St. Augustine’s Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, located on the western shores of the Matanzas Bay, is the oldest masonry fortification in the continental U.S. Touting more than 450 years of ...
“Viva Mose!” shouted the crowd of dignitaries, state park rangers and community members gathered at Fort Mose Historic State Park near St. Augustine on a sunny Friday in early May. The chant — ...
The Fort Mose Historical Society and the Florida State Parks Foundation hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Jan. 19, to begin building a full-scale replica of the original fort built in Fort ...
The state park is the site of the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States. Palatka's downtown revival: Investors bet on small-town charm Downtown St. Augustine restaurant names ...
There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...
St. Augustine, Fla — A dream more than 30 years in the making, and carrying nearly three centuries of Floridian, American and African American history, is now a reality. A ribbon-cutting ceremony ...
Common performing at the Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series on February 8, 2024 (Rory Thompson, Copyright 2024 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla ...
At a meeting in Tallahassee on April 19, The Florida Museum of Black History Task Force placed West Augustine’s former Florida Memorial University (FMU,) in the No. 1 spot — again — for the location ...
Our kids would tell you that we’ve been to every historic fort in Florida and Georgia, but that’s not true. We’ve been to ...