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Fort De Soto Park. / 27.615499; -82.735902. South-southwest of St. Petersburg, Florida, Fort De Soto Park is a park operated by Pinellas County on five offshore keys, or islands: Madelaine Key, St. Jean Key, St. Christopher Key, Bonne Fortune Key and the main island, Mullet Key. The keys are connected by either bridge or causeway.
The St. Petersburg Museum of History ( SPMOH) is a history museum located in St. Petersburg, Florida, dedicated to covering the area's history. As of 2020, the museum's director is Rui Farias. [ 1] The museum was founded by Mary Wheeler Eaton [ 1] in 1920 as the St. Petersburg Memorial Historical Society.
Designated NHL. November 7, 1973 [ 1] Dade Battlefield Historic State Park is a state park located on County Road 603 between Interstate 75 (Exit 314) and U.S. Route 301 in Sumter County, Florida. The 80-acre (32 ha) park includes 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of pine flatwoods and a live oak hammock. Also called the Dade Massacre site, it preserves ...
Florida Military Aviation Museum, St. Petersburg, closed in about 2007 [43] Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum , Kissimmee , closed in 2004 Fred Bear Museum , Gainesville , showcased archery & the contribution of Fred Bear , a man who popularized the sport, closed in 2003, [ 44 ] current museum located in Springfield, Missouri
Museum of St. Petersburg Art, St. Petersburg, Russia [18] Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum [19] The State Hermitage Museum. General Staff Building 's East Wing (pre-1917 ministerial quarters) [20] Hermitage Theatre. Menshikov Palace [21] Military Gallery. Museum of Porcelain (Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory) [22] New Hermitage.
Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, [ 2][ 3] covering 16 acres (6.5 ha) and made with over 16 million bricks. [ 4] Among United States forts, only Fort Monroe in Virginia and Fort Adams in Rhode Island are larger.
History of Florida. St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the continental United States, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The Spanish Crown issued an asiento to Menéndez, signed by King Philip II on March 20, 1565, granting him various titles, including that ...
History of Florida. This region of Pinellas was first settled in the 1830s and 1840s by Odet Phillippe, a French Huguenot from Charleston, SC, along with the McMullen Family from Quitman, Georgia and the British Richard Booth family who planted citrus groves and raised cattle. Following the Civil War, during the Reconstruction era, the city was ...