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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IBF_african-origins_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Fort Mose (Moh-Say) was a multicultural community of people originally from West and Central Africa, along with some Native Americans.
Some of the residents of Mose, like Francisco Menendez, fought in the 1715 Yamasee War against the English of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IBD_the-old-st-johns-county-jail_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Built in 1891, the St. Johns County Jail held prisoners until 1953. The previous county jail was located next to the Hotel Ponce de Leon in downtown St. Augustine, Florida. Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913), co-founder of the Standard Oil Company…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IBB_chain-gangs_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Following the Civil War and the reconstruction period the state of Florida found itself in debt. As a way to offset some of the state's expenditures, newly elected governor George Drew put into practice the convict leasing system in 1877. Prisoner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IBA_spreading-the-wealth-since-1900_St.-Augustine-FL.html
You think your job is tough?
Try being a manure spreader in the 1800s.
Imagine the relief for farmers when the first practical manure spreader was introduced to the farm in 1900. It was developed and patented by Joseph Oppenheim, a schoolmaste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GU0_major-dade-and-his-command-monuments_St.-Augustine-FL.html
On December 28, 1835, during the Second Seminole War, a column of 108 U.S. Army soldiers dispatched from Fort Brooke (Tampa) to relieve the detachment at Fort King (Ocala) was surprised by a strong force of Seminole Indians near Bushnell in Sumter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTY_dade-pyramids_St.-Augustine-FL.html
These three pyramids cover vaults containing the individually unidentified remains of 1468 soldiers of the Florida Indian Wars
1835-1842
The Florida Indian Wars began with the murder of an Indian agent at Fort King on December 25, 1835. While en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTH_solla-carcaba-cigar-factory_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory, completed in 1909, is the last remnant in St. Augustine of the cigar industry, whose local origins date to the 1830s. Political unrest drove many Cuban cigar makers to Florida after 1868. Their numbers in St. Augus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GR2_first-baptist-church-of-st-augustine_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Established in 1872 through the efforts of Mrs. Hannah Jordan, a devoutly Christian sojourner who, like its first pastor, Rev. Father C. Felder, believed in leading by the example of hard work. The church has flourished at this location—sinc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQZ_gonzalez-alvarez-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
For more than three centuries this site has been occupied by St. Augustinians. Beginning about 1650, a succession of thatched wooden structures were their homes. This coquina stone house was built soon after the English burned St. Augustine in 170…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQX_tovar-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The infantryman Jose Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant, lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, Jose Coruna, a C…