My Florida History

Today, Google ’s homepage features an interactive doodle celebrating author Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. Although the doodle features his w...

Shuffleboard courts in downtown Avon Park, Florida Shuffleboard and golden days of retirement are entwined in Florida mythology. In the mid...

Brass band awaiting Grover Cleveland's arrival in Lakeland, Florida, 1894 ( Florida State Archives ) Today, a U.S. president overlooks F...

10 Most Endangered Roadside Places , from Visual Ephemera " Hav-A-Tampa Closes Its Factory " St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 2009 ...

In the future, will the Hindu Temple of Tampa be a historic landmark? The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) guidelines ask for bu...

Edward Heberton is buried in the Laurel Grove Cemetery in Waldo, Florida. His marker is a rather plain marble stone: "Rev. Edward P. H...

Lillies are commonly associated with funerals in the United States - they are said to represent purity, but offer the practical aspect of be...

A circa 1895 cyanotype of Main Street Daytona (photograph courtesy Paul Jones)

William Gadsden Green Co K 2 Regt Fla Inf CSA 1839-1918 This headstone is the type authorized by the federal government in 1930 to be place...

An impulsive right-hand turn down a narrow and flooding side street in Waldo, Florida , led us to the Laurel Grove Cemetery. This country ce...