Florida Black Heritage Trail Guide

The Florida Black Heritage Trail Guide features historic black American sites from Pensacola to Key West and includes profiles and biographical sketches of many distinguished and accomplished black Floridians. Available for free at VISITFLORIDA.com, the guide 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” that lived in the early 1800s and purchased the freedom of fellow enslaved blacks;
• American Beach, a predominantly black oceanfront resort established by Abraham Lincoln Lewis, who in the 1930s founded the Afro-American Insurance Company of Jacksonville.
• the Black Archives Research Center and Museum at Florida A & M University, the oldest historically black public university in the state of Florida.