Multicultural in Fernandina Beach, FL

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Cumberland Island National Seashore is the largest and southernmost of the Georgia barrier islands. It is accessi...

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NaNa, the tallest dune in Florida, is a protected landmark due largely to the efforts of MaVynne Betsch (January 14, ...

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The Franklintown community was first populated by ex-slaves from the Samuel Harrison plantation. Franklintown Chapel'...

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American Beach was established in 1935 under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, one of seven co-founders of the...

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During the period of racial segregation, African Americans were barred from most of the beaches in Florida. American ...

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This land high above the Amelia River was a campsite for Indians in pre-historic times, as early as 2000-1000 B.C. In...

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New Zion Baptist Church, the second oldest and largest black Baptist Church on Amelia Island, was founded on May 15, ...

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The plantation era was a time in our history of opportunity, political contradictions and great cruelty. For planters...

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"[The Timucuans] brought us grains of roasted maize,... smoked lizards or other wild animals... and various kinds of ...

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The exploitation of enslaved people differed throughout the Americas. However, the bottom line was profit for the own...

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"[H]aving landed [on the River of May's shore]... we saw the chief of that country, ... he ... showed such enthusiasm...

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You are standing at the edge of two worlds. You are leaving the world of the owner and entering the world of the slav...

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Imagine...instead of a lush green landscape of today, a long dusty road stretches to the slave cabins and field beyon...

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Many crops were grown on the plantation, but sea island cotton produced the highest profit. Grossing and processing i...

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Jean Ribaut and a party of Huguenots landed the morning of May 1, 1562 on this island. Here they knelt in prayer, bes...

Cumberland Island National Seashore