262 West King Street

262 West King Street (HMR9K)

Location: St Augustine, FL 32084 St Johns County
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N 29° 53.432', W 81° 19.867'

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ACCORD Freedom Trail

Leo C. Chase, Sr., who had previously managed the Huff Funeral Home in Lincolnville, opened one of the oldest businesses in St. Augustine, this funeral home in 1955. His son, Arnett Chase, took over after his father's death in 1977. Another son, Leo C. Chase, Jr., was the first St. Augustinian killed in the Vietnam War, and a nearby park was named in his honor in 1965.

During the 1960s, this was a place of sanctuary for civil rights activists who were subjected to harassment in St. Augustine. The funeral home's ambulance was used to take marchers to the hospital when they were beaten in the downtown area. Dianne (Mrs. Arnett) Chase took part in the demonstrations that led to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

There were many black elected officials in St. Augustine in the decades after the Civil War, but the shooting of black alderman John Papino by a white city marshal during an official meeting in 1902 was the act of terror that put an end to black political office holding for more than 70 years. Arnett Chase made history in 1973 when he was elected to the city commission as the first black elected official in modern times.

In 2008, a Chase limousine went to the Jacksonville airport to pick up the Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian, one of Dr. Martin Luther King's closest associates. Vivian returned to St. Augustine—where he had been beaten and arrested while leading beach wade-ins and demonstrations in 1964—to address the second annual Freedom Trail Banquet sponsored by ACCORD.

This Historical Marker Presented this 2nd Day of July, 2009 by Northrop Grumman
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HM NumberHMR9K
Series This marker is part of the Florida: St. Augustine Freedom Trail series
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Year Placed2009
Placed ByThe 40th Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstrations, Inc. (ACCORD)
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Date Added Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 1:05am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17R E 468029 N 3306701
Decimal Degrees29.89053333, -81.33111667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 53.432', W 81° 19.867'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 53' 25.92" N, 81° 19' 52.02" W
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Area Code(s)904
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 266 W King St, St Augustine FL 32084, US
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