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1818

Andrew Jackson’s armies crossed a river running through the park during the First Seminole War in 1818.

1821

The plaza, named for a colonial-era king of Spain and located near the Port of Pensacola, was the site of west Florida’s acquisition by the United States in 1821.

1825

The lighthouse overlooking Biscayne Bay was first built to a height of 65 feet in 1825.

1835

In 1835, Seminole warriors killed 105 United States soldiers on the park’s grounds, including Major Francis Dade, for whom Florida’s most populous county, Miami-Dade County, is named.

1864

On February 20, 1864, the rolling fields of Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park served as the site of Florida’s largest Civil War battle.

1867

Voter Registration Rolls, 1867-68 Reconstruction era voting records

1878

Standing along with nine National Register Historic buildings on the grounds of the former winter estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford is a 15,000-square-foot museum with changing special exhibits, such as a display on Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1878.

1892

Previously a private collection in Pensacola (date of origin 1892). Created by P.K. Yonge and his son Julien Yonge.

1910

The museum’s extensive collection includes a 1910 Baldwin steam locomotive used in the cypress industry, Jazz Age swamp buggies unique to south-west Florida, and a WWII-era Sherman tank.

Eartha M.M. White and her mother Clara White: Jacksonville, Florida (1910). Clara White, born a slave at a plantation on Amelia Island, married a black soldier who escaped from slavery in South Carolina during the Civil War to join the 34th Regiment of United States Colored Infantry.

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