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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.
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
The population of Fort Myers City had been 575 citizens in 1890. By 1930, it had climbed to 9,082. [44] In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the city of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990.
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
Clark himself served as mayor for over a decade; in Eatonville's early days, his shop did double duty as town hall. Buildings and families have come and gone since then, but the community has kept ...
Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida.It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via its southwest border, [1] by means of which they could "free all these Southern Countries [states] from the Yoke of the Americans".
McCollum Hall (Fort Myers, Florida) Killing of Tony McDade; Killing of Markeis McGlockton; McLaughlin v. Florida; Miami Boys; Von Delany Mizell; Monson Motor Lodge; 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests; Harry T. Moore; Richard V. Moore; Christine Wigfall Morris
The core of Tallahassee's downtown streets are named for men who were heroes at the time of our founding.