HERITAGE TRAVELER GUIDE T O HISTORIC SITES IN The Oldest House St. Augustine Dade Battlefield Historic State Park Seminole Reenactor (top) Cape Florida Lighthouse (center) your FLORIDA side Bristol torreya state Park The park is the home to the Gregory House, a fully furnished antebellum plantation. Andrew Jackson’s armies crossed a river running through the park during the First Seminole War in 1818. The remains of a Confederate gun pit are visible. (850) 643-2674 or www.floridastateparks.org/ torreya Eglin VillagE air Force armament Museum The museum features an extensive collection of planes and aerial weapons, including a WWII-era B-17 bomber. It also houses a Historic Pensacola Village is a house museum and museum complex in the heart of downtown Pensacola. Ten of the twenty- GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast seven National Register-listed properties are interpreted facilities open to the public. bomb, first tested in 2003, which is often referred to as the “Mother of All Bombs” for Fort Pickens held Geronimo, the Pensacola Historical Museum its unrivaled explosive power. (850) 651-1808 Chiricahua Apache warrior who surren - The museum contains the Army/ or www.afarmamentmuseum.com dered to the federal authorities in Navy Gallery, the Maritime Gallery, the 1886. (850) 455-5167, (850) 934-2600, Multicultural Gallery, the Native American PEnsacola www.nps.gov/guis/planyourvisit/ Gallery, and the Forts/Civil War Gallery. An Fort Barrancas & fort- barrancas.htm , or www.nps.gov/ Fort Pickens interactive touchscreen kiosk displays 18th- guis/ planyourvisit/fort-pickens.htm century maps and focuses on the 1781 Span - During the Civil War, the Confederacy Historic Pensacola Village ish siege of Pensacola, as well as the history held Fort Barrancas while the Union of nearby Fort George. (850) 433-1559 or held Fort Pickens. Well before that, The village includes the T. T. Wentworth, www.pensacolahistory.org the British and Spanish had built Jr., Florida State Museum, which covers fortifications atop the bluff on which nearly 450 years of history, while the Plaza Ferdinand Vii Fort Barrancas now sits. The postwar Discovery Gallery inside the museum The plaza, named for a colonial-era king P O T , engages young visitors. The 8.5-acre of Spain and located near the Port of R O N E village complex also contains the 1832 V Pensacola, was the site of west Florida’s S O R G Old Christ Church, the 1871 Dorr acquisition by the United States in 1821. S N I House, and other museums, including Today a monument to Andrew Jackson, who W D F E O ; T the Pensacola Museum of Industry and T F accepted the territory from the Spanish, N E E L R M , E T T N the Pensacola Museum of Commerce. stands on the plaza grounds. R N O A I E P T C E C www.historicpensacola.org www.visitpensacola.com/ ; D (850) 595-5985 or E (800) 874-1234 or E T A C I O D I V R articles/pensacolas-rich-history R R P O E L L S A national naval F T K ; N R D E A N M aviation Museum P U santa rosa BEacH N L O O A R R N I G O V K The museum’s 300,000-square-foot build - Wesley Mansion and I N C T E A A B N F , ; Eden gardens state Park O Y ing houses 150 Navy, Marine Corps, and P T T O N N T U E , O M Coast Guard aircraft, including a number N The 19th-century mansion contains an C T O I R S T A A C P L E E of A-4F Skyhawk jets that served in extensive assortment of original Louis XVI L T D E O N A I R D P P I Vietnam. The most visited museum in : antiques, while the grounds feature the R L E A O G T L A F N P E Florida also contains a flight simulator ornamental gardens once popular among : E M The focal point of Eden Gardens State Park is the beautifully S G N U A O O I P R I renovated, two-story Wesley Mansion, with its elegant white and an IMAX theatre. (850) 453-2389 or wealthy Victorian-era elites. (850) 231-4214 V S V E I N R H T E columns and wrap-around porch. www.navalaviationmuseum.org or www.floridastateparks.org/EdenGardens P Discover a whole new side of you ... and the Sunshine State at Fort caroline national Memorial The French established their first permanent North American colony here in 1564 at St. Johns Bluff. A visitor center provides gainEsVillE background about the Timucuan Indians Dudley Farm Historic state Park who inhabited the area for 1,000 years The living-history farm, located west of before the arrival of the French, the religious Gainesville in Newberry, is a plantation persecution that led the French to consider complex that consists of 18 buildings, establishing Fort Caroline as a retreat for including the house in which the Dudley Huguenots, and the Spanish onslaught family resided, complete with the that destroyed the settlement only a year original furniture. Living-history actors Fort Caroline National Memorial, a unit of the Timucuan after its founding. (904) 641-7155 or www.nps.gov/timu/historyculture/foca.htm reenact the duties of the farmers who Ecological and Historic Preserve. worked the fields between the 1850s and the 1940s, from cultivating crops to weapons, and exhibits about the first olustEE caring for livestock. (352) 472-1142 or Native American inhabitants of the olustee Battlefield Historic state Park www.floridastateparks.org/DudleyFarm Tallahassee region, Spanish shipwrecks, and On February 20, 1864, the rolling fields of the use of the steamboat as a 19th-century Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park tallaHassEE means of transportation. (850) 245-6400 or served as the site of Florida’s largest Civil goodwood Museum & gardens www.flheritage.com/museum War battle. Interpretive signs recount the The museum, once one of the area’s finest natural Bridge Battlefield battle, which resulted in a Confederate antebellum plantation houses and later a Historic state Park victory, and a monument pays tribute to stately late-19th-century residence, features the 2,807 casualties. (386) 758-0400 or some of the state’s earliest frescoed ceilings. Because of the Confederate soldiers’ www.floridastateparks.org/olusteebattlefield The garden has been restored to its land - courageous stand at Natural Bridge scaping of the early 1900s. (850) 877-4202 Battlefield in 1865, Tallahassee remained st. augustinE or www.goodwoodmuseum.org the only Southern capital east of the castillo de san Marcos Mississippi that was never captured. national Monument letchworth-love Mounds state Park Reenactors fight the battle on the first Since 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos has The 46-foot-tall Letchworth-Love Mound, weekend in March. (850) 922-6007 or guarded the northern gateway to St. Augus - built between 100 and 900 C.E. by www.floridastateparks.org/naturalbridge tine along the Matanzas River; today it members of the Weedon Island Culture, remains the only intact 17th-century fort left is the tallest surviving Indian mound standing in the United States. Reenactors in in Florida. Interpretive signs and guided dress dating from the colonial period and a tours lead visitors through the mound’s museum help visitors learn about the Indians, history. The park is in Monticello, to the African Americans, English, Spanish, and east of Tallahassee. (850) 922-6007 or JacksonVillE Americans who have interacted here over five www.floridastateparks.org/letchworth Beaches Museum centuries. (904) 829-6506 or www.nps.gov/casa Mission san luis and History center San Luis is Florida’s only reconstructed The center contains a number of railroad colonial Spanish mission. Living history buildings built when 19th-century oil presentations and hands-on exhibits tycoon and transportation pioneer illustrate the strong influence of Spain on Henry Flager ran the Florida East Coast the state’s colonial history. A council house railroad company, a steam locomotive and periodic reenactments of native ball dating from 1911, and the 1903 Pablo games bring Apalachee Indian culture alive. Beach post office. The museum contains (850) 487-3711 or www.missionsanluis.org traveling exhibits, an archives reading room, and the “Shore Stories” permanent exhibit, R O Museum of Florida History N E V which explores the history of the six beach S O The museum analyzes and interprets the R G communities in the area. The museum is in . S state’s history through portraits of Seminole N I Jacksonville Beach, east of Jacksonville. Reenactors at Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort W D E Indians, World War II uniforms and (904) 241-5657 or www.bm-hc.com in the United States. Discover a w hole n ew s ide o f y ou . .. a nd t he S unshine S tate a t your FLORIDA side Dow Museum of Historic Homes including displays on the Coast Guard The nine houses in the museum, which and shipwrecks. (904) 829-0745 or date from 1790 to 1910 and include the www.staugustinelighthouse.com William Dean Howells House, where the famous author and pioneer of literary realism lived in 1916, are accompanied by five exhibit galleries that delve into the local history of America’s oldest continu - crystal riVEr St. Augustine’s Government House Museum. ously occupied city. (904) 823-9722 or www.moas.org/dowmuseum.html crystal river archaeological state Park colonial spanish Quarter Anthropologists theorize that the park The quarter offers a glimpse of St.