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McCollum Hall is a historic building block that was an entertainment venue in Fort Myers, Florida. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places [1] and is a site on Florida's Black Heritage Trail. [2] It included a gas station and was listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book guide for African Americans.
This list of African American Historic Places in Florida is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers.
Fort Myers Beach: 41: Mound Key Site: August 12, 1970 : Address Restricted: Fort Myers Beach: Part of the Archeological Resources of the Caloosahatchee Region MPS: 42: Murphy-Burroughs House: Murphy-Burroughs House
(The local City Herald advertised Langston as "the negro's refuge from lynching, burning at the stake and other lawlessness.") The sociologist Mozell C. Hill noted in 1946 that fledgling cities on ...
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
The Southwest Florida Museum of History (SWFLM) is a history museum in Fort Myers, Florida. [1] The museum is in historic downtown Ft. Myers, in a former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad depot at 2031 Jackson Street (one block south of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard). It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
The core of Tallahassee's downtown streets are named for men who were heroes at the time of our founding.
Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network; Florida Black Heritage Trail; Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame; Florida Interscholastic Athletic Association; The Florida Star; Fort Mose; Siege of Fort Mose; Freedom Highways campaign; Freemanville, Florida; Frenchtown (Tallahassee)