More than 300 years ago, a crowded dugout canoe carrying 11 exhausted African freedom seekers arrived in St. Augustine. They had journeyed more than 200 miles from South Carolina, where they had been ...

There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...

The reconstructed wooden Fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park provides visitors a look at life at the 1740 First Free Black community in North America Fort Mose Historic State Park is the site of the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Seriesis set for its fourth event from Feb. 6-16, 2025, with Macy Gray among the announced headliners. Held at Fort Mose Historic State Park, the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — For the first time in hundreds of years, a fort now stands at Fort Mose historic site in St. Augustine. The life-sized replica aims to help tell the story of how the Underground ...

The Fort Mose Historical Society and the Florida State Parks Foundation hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Jan. 19, to begin building a full-scale replica of the original fort built in Fort ...

Soldiers reenact a battle at Fort Mose. Located just outside of St. Augustine, Fort Mose was the first free, Black settlement in what would become the United States of America. Florida Park Service It ...

Honors first legally sanctioned free Black community in present-day United States ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, January 19, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – For the past three years, St. Augustine has become the home of one of the most special Black History Month events in Northeast Florida. Now, in its 4th year, the Fort Mose Jazz ...