America's most arrested rabbi.
Lincolnville hub during Civil Rights Movement.
An epidemic kills many of the paid Indigenous workers constructing the Castillo de San Marcos. Thirty enslaved African people were purchased from Havana, Cuba...
One of the city's oldest structures.
Martha B. Aikens is hired as the Castillo de San Marcos Superintendent. She was the first Black person to hold this position and said people had a "wait and see" att...
The American Statehood Period begins...
With the signing of the Adam-Onís Treaty, Florida went from a Spanish colony to an American territory. To Americans, this opened up what had been an international so...
Florida Normal and Industrial Institute (now known at Florida Memorial University) moves to St. Augustine from Jacksonville.
Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.
Confederate troops occupy Fort Marion (now Castillo de San Marcos). The majority of St. Augustine's citizens were supportive of this change of government, excepting...
The original destination of the Underground Railroad.
Twelve years after the original settlment was destroyed, Fort Mose is rebuilt near the site of the original community. Many African-descended residents are ordered t...
Fort Mose Historic State Park is added to the National Register of Historic Places...
Built by St. Johns County, Excelsior was the first public high school for Black students...
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the S...
Pedro Menendez founds San Augustin as the capital of La Florida. His party is said to have included free and enslaved Africans...
All that remains of 167 Gault Street.
British forces capture Havana, a major port of the Spanish Empire that was considered far more important than St. Augustine...
Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.
Anthropologist, author, preserver of memories.
An account of Fort Mose is published in The Journal of Negro History, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
