Fort Mose will launch a Black history trail to educate visitors about slaves flight to freedom to St. Augustine centuries ago.
The fort was the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in what would become the United States. Today, it s a state-managed park with a nature trail.
Fort Mose Historical Society officials host the annual Flight to Freedom event, though it has been postponed due to the pandemic, to share the site s history with the public. During the event, re-enactors stand in the trail and portray characters such a slave on the run, a slave catcher, a priest and a Native American.
New interactive educational signs bring Flight to Freedom Trail to life year round at Fort Mose
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Fort Mose Historic State Park has partnered with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida to launch a self-guided educational tour experience along the Flight to Freedom Trail. (Courtesy of Fort Mose Historical State Park)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – In celebration of Black History Month, Fort Mose Historic State Park launched a self-guided educational tour experience along the Flight to Freedom Trail, bringing to life the rich history of the park year-round.
The tour was created through a partnership with Florida Power & Light Company and The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and was announced Thursday at Fort Mose by Gil Ziffer, president of the Florida State Parks Foundation.
City remembers Voice of Lincolnville by renaming street in her honor
Historic City News subscribers are invited to join City officials in St Augustine on Saturday, February 20, at 12:00 noon, at the corner of Bravo Street and Weeden Street in Lincolnville for an unveiling ceremony honoring Carrie Johnson, lovingly remembered as the Voice of “Lincolnville”. During its Monday January 13, 2020 meeting, the St Augustine City Commission voted to celebrate Johnson’s life by renaming Bravo Street (between Riberia Street and Sanford Street) to “Carrie Johnson Way”.
The 83-year-old known as “Miss Carrie” to almost everyone who knew her, passed away at 7:00 a.m., November 27, 2018. St Augustine was Carrie Johnson’s hometown, she was born here on February 28, 1935. She lived in Miami for many years, raising a family and working as a teacher’s aide, until Hurricane Andrew struck in August 1992. The Category 5 storm devastated the area where she was living. She retu