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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQW_st-marys-missionary-baptist_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This church was founded on May 25, 1875, and led by the inspiring Reverend Ivory Barnes, its first minister. The present edifice, occupied beginning in 1937, has held high the banner of Christ. Inspired in its earliest days by the spirit of The Em…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQV_shiloh-missionary-baptist-church_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This spiritual and civic citadel was established in 1929 with Rev. R.H. Whittaker as spiritual leader, and Chairman of the Board of Deacons, D.P. Mims. This church, the gateway to New Augustine, experienced phenomenal growth under the inspired lea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ8_twine-park_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Henry L. Twine (1923-1994) and his wife Katherine "Kat" Twine (1925-2002) were longtime Lincolnville residents and prominent community leaders for who this neighborhood park was named. They were both active in the civil rights movement a…
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Fountain of Youth Lodge No. 649, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World and Pride of Fountain of Youth Temple No. 413. Completed in November 1958.
This lodge, called Elks Rest, was at the early center of political and civil life of linc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ4_zora-neale-hurston_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Noted author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) rented a room in this house in 1942. One of the few surviving buildings closely linked with Hurston life, it is an example of frame Vernacular construction, with cool, north-facing porches on both floors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQ2_florida-east-coast-railway-general-office-buildings_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Henry M. Flagler built the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) to link his resort empire and establish the east coast of Florida as "The American Riviera." Flagler, partner with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, developed the Atlantic sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GOV_markland_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Markland, the Anderson family home, has been a local landmark since 1843. Dr. Andrew Anderson, a prominent civic leader, laid the foundations of the coquina shellstone house in 1839 just before his death in a yellow fever epidemic. The original ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GH4_s-d-w-smith-ancient-city-mt-horeb-20_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This Masonic Lodge, built in 1947 with George Morgan as Worshipful Master, was originally organized in 1925 and represents a merger (in 1984) of Prince Hall Lodges—S.D.W. Smith No. 481, Ancient City No. 26, and Mt. Horeb No. 20. This facilit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EVB_the-st-augustine-foot-soldiers-monument_St-Augustine-FL.html
(Front panel)Dedicated to those who participated in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in St. Augustine. They protested racial discrimination by marching, picketing, kneeling-in at churches, sitting-in at lunch counters, wading-in at beaches, …