After evacuating the residents of the Fort Mose to the Castillo de San Marcos, Captain Francisco Menendez and his militia fight the army of General James Oglethorpe...
The Treaty of Paris trades Havana for St. Augustine, marking the start of the British Period of St. Augustine's history."Great Britain claim Florida through the trea...
Secessionists in Charleston, South Carolina attack federal troops who still occupy Fort Sumter, which is an island fort in the Charleston Harbor. This was the first...
A month before Abraham Lincoln would be sworn in as President, eleven southern states band together to form a new country. These rebel states were (in order of seces...
According to Florida Atlantic University, Florida enacted 19 segregation laws between the years of 1865 and 1967. Florida was also known for enforcing especially har...
In return for Spain's military support during the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States of America returned the peninsula of Florida to Spanish...
During an 'as usual' day of picketing for youth demonstrators in St. Augustine, sixteen teenagers were arrested at four different lunch counters in the city. Among t...
Recruiting office for the U.S. Colored Troops opens in Fort Marion, which had been reclaimed by the Union Army...
Union forces take St. Augustine and many of Florida's coastal cities and free many Black people who were enslaved there. Federal troops reclaim the Saint Francis Bar...
This two story mansion is made out of coquina, a stone native to Florida, and is one of a short list of buildings constructed by the Spanish that is still standing...
Led by NAACP advisor Dr. R. B. Hayling, these demonstrations were conducted on the sidewalks and streets of historic downtown St. Augustine. The young demonstrators...
While she lived in the 'Ancient City', Miss Hurston published her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road...
