Professional Archaeologist Nicole Grinnan of the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) will present on Tuesday the findings of three historic shipwrecks in the Panhandle. The Panhandle […]
President Joe Biden has signed legislation recognizing Juneteenth National Independence Day as the nation’s 12th federal holiday—and the first new one in decades. “This is a […]
Florida’s Division of Historical Resources has awarded the City of Hawthorne a $26,418 grant to restore the Hawthorne Historical Museum and Cultural Center. The building started […]
Legislation creating a task force on preserving abandoned African-America cemeteries is now a reality. State Sen. Janet Cruz of Tampa first introduced the bill, which garnered unanimous […]
Genealogist Tatanya Peterson knows her fourth generation grandparents. And thanks to a journal kept by plantation owner James Chesnut, she knows those enslaved grandparents, Grace and […]
On Memorial Day morning, while the streets in High Springs were still quiet and the High Springs Fire Department was just pulling trucks out of the […]
When you first see the Alachua County Veterans Memorial, the first thing you notice is the length. With each tile representing one year, the memorial located […]
Happy Dyngus Day! Dyngus Day is an old central European holiday, mostly connected to Poland, celebrated on the day after Easter. In the United States, it […]