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Alachua Co. Historic Trust Gainesville, Florida
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The Museum complex includes 4 sites: the Matheson Museum, housing the exhibit hall and... |
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Austin Carriage Museum Weirsdale, Florida
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The Florida Carriage Museum & Resort is home to one of the worlds finest collections... |
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Biscayne National Park Homestead, Florida
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Although Biscayne National Park was established for its natural history, signs of people... |
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Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park Flagler Beach, Florida
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Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the... |
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Constitution Convention Museum State Park Port St. Joe, Florida
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A boomtown founded in 1835, St. Joseph competed with Apalachicola as a trading port on... |
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Crystal River Archaeological State Park Crystal River, Florida
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A focal point of pre-Columbian Native American ceremony and commerce, the Crystal River... |
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Dade Battlefield Historic State Park Bushnell, Florida
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One of the bloodiest battles of the Second Seminole War was fought in this location. The... |
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Dunlawton Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens Port Orange, Florida
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Interpretive signs recount the history of this famous 16th century sugar mill and of the... |
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Fort Barrancas Pensacola, Florida
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The Fort Barrancas Area is on Taylor Road approximately a half mile east from the Museum... |
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Fort Dallas And The William Wagner House Miami, Florida
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Located in Miami's Lummus Park, Fort Dallas and the William Wagner House offer unique... |
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Fort Jefferson National Park Dry Tortugas, Florida
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The construction of the fort began in 1846 and was planned and supervised by the U.S.... |
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Fort Mose Historic State Park St. Augustine, Florida
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The power politics of 18th century England and Spain reached across the Atlantic to the... |
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Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park Key West, Florida
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Named after 12th president Zachary Taylor, the U. S. Army began construction on Fort... |
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Gamble Plantation Historic State Park Ellenton, Florida
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The Gamble Plantation's history stretches from Major Robert Gamble, who presided over a... |
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John Gorrie Museum State Park Apalachicola, Florida
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A young physician named John Gorrie moved to Apalachicola in the early 1800s when it was... |
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Koreshan State Historic Site Estero, Florida
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Throughout its history, Florida has welcomed pioneers of all kinds. Cyrus Reed Teed was... |
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Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park Tallahassee, Florida
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The Native Americans who resided on the banks of Lake Jackson between 1200 and 1500 A.D.... |
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Letchworth Love Mounds State Park Monticello, Florida
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The 46 foot tall Letchworth-Love Mound, built between 100 and 900 A.D., is the tallest... |
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Manatee County Emerson Point Mound Palmetto, Florida
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The largest remaining Indian mound in the Tampa Bay Region, Manatee County Emerson Point... |
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Plaza Ferdinand Vii Pensacola, Florida
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Plaza Ferdinand VII, named for the King of Spain, was the center of Pensacola town life... |
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Torreya State Park Bristol, Florida
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This expansive and verdant state park features an opulent plantation including Civil War-... |
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Veterans Memorial Park And Wall South Pensacola, Florida
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Veterans Memorial Park/Wall South, a park to honor Veterans of all of America's wars. In... |
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Ybor City Museum State Park Tampa, Florida
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Late 19th-century Tampa was the site of buzzing economic and social activity, and this... |
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Yellow Bluff Fort Jacksonville, Florida
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This military installation, constructed in 1862, allowed both Confederate and Union... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
