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The second edition of the Florida Black Heritage Trail is
produced by the John G. Riley Center/Museum for African-American
History and Culture and financed in part by a grant from the Division
of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State.
The new, 34-page Florida Black Heritage Trail contains descriptions
of more than 200 places important to the history of Florida, profiles
of noteworthy African Americans, and a guide to festivals throughout
the state. It also includes four self-guided driving tours and features
vivid color photographs.
Sites in the book include Eatonville, the country's oldest black
municipality and home of noted writer Zora Neale Hurston; the Julee
Cottage Museum in Pensacola, home of Julee Panton, a "free woman
of color" in the early 1800s; the Lincolnville Historic District
in St. Augustine; the Black Archives Research Center and Museum
at Florida A&M University; and American Beach, a predominantly
black oceanfront resort established by Abraham Lincoln Lewis, who
in the 1930s founded the Afro-American Insurance Company in Jacksonville.
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