Discovering Jacksonville and the Surrounding Area:
Historical Tours
DR. PATRICK L. COONEY; email: plc47@optonline.net
This guide presents daytrip destinations within a chronological and historical order to increase enjoyment of the area within a day's drive out and back from Jacksonville, Florida.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE AREA
Museum of Science and History
Museum of Florida History
Lake Jackson Mounds State Archaeological Site
Crystal River Archaeological Site
CHAPTER 3. THE FOUNDING OF EARLY SETTLEMENTS: SPANISH DOMINATION
Fountain of Youth (St. Augustine)
Huguenot Memorial Park (Jacksonville)
Fort Caroline National Memorial Park (Jacksonville)
Mission Nombre de Dios of Nuestra Senora de la Leche y Parto (Our Nursing Mother of Happy Delivery) (St. Augustine)
San Luis State Archaeological and Historic Site
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (St. Augustine)
Other St. Augustine Sites
CHAPTER 4. ENGLISH ACTIVITY IN THE AREA
Darien, Georgia
Fort King George Historic Site (Darien, GA)
St. Simons (near Brunswick, GA)
Horton House Ruins (Jekyll Island)
Fort Mose (St. Augustine area)
Fort Matanzas National Monument (St. Augustine area)
CHAPTER 5. BRITISH FLORIDA, BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1775
Wiregrass Trail
Jessup, Georgia
Fernandina (north of Jacksonville)
CHAPTER 6. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND AFTERMATH
Battle at Thomas Creek (Jacksonville)
Midway, Georgia
Fort Morris State Park, Sunbury, Georgia
CHAPTER 7. SECOND SPANISH PERIOD, 1783-1821 (including First Seminole War 1810-1818)
Payne's Prairie (Gainesville area)
San Marcos de Apalache State Historic Site (east of Tallahassee)
Fernandina (north of Jacksonville)
CHAPTER 8. AMERICAN CONTROL: THE TERRITORIAL PERIOD TO STATEHOOD, 1821-1844 (including the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842)
West Central Florida:
Fort Cooper State Park (south of Inverness)
Dade Battlefield State Historic Site
Daytona Area:
Bulow Plantation (north of Daytona)
James Ormond Park (near Bulow Plantation)
New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site
Addison Blockhouse
Fort Christmas
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation (St. Simons area)
Butler Plantation (Darien)
Hamilton Plantation (St. Simons)
Kingsley Plantation State Historic Site (Jacksonville)
Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center (west of Jacksonville)
Yellow Bluff (Jacksonville)
Fort Clinch (north of Jacksonville on Amelia Island)
David Yulee and Cedar Key (on the Gulf of Mexico)
David Yulee and his Sugar Mill (Homosassa Springs)
Olustee Battlefield State Historic Site (west of Jacksonville)
Museum of Southern History (Jacksonville)
Natural Bridge Battlefield State Historic Site
Black Troops in Georgia: The Sacking of Darien
Jefferson Davis Memorial State Historic Site (near Tifton, Georgia)
CHAPTER 11. POST CIVIL WAR PERIOD
Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Mandarin section of Jacksonville)
Robber Baron: Henry Flagler
Pablo Historical Park (Jacksonville Beach area)
Brunswick, Georgia
Jekyll Island (Brunswick, Georgia area)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Historic Site (Gainesville area)
Zora Neale Hurston (Eatonville, north of Orlando)
The Thomas Hotel (Gainesville)
Mary McLeod Bethune (Daytona)
Earth Mary Magdalene White (Jacksonville)
James Weldon Johnson (Jacksonville)
Camp Blanding and World War II (Gainesville area)
Fort Stewart Museum (Midway, Georgia)
Jacksonville Landing and Downtown Jacksonville
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