First Christian bride in the United States.
African slave, Haitian revolutionary, Spanish general, and Florida's only black caudillo. When Jorge Biassou arrived in St. Augustine in 1796, he was already a legend in his own time.
Center of defense and heritage.
Writer, abolitionist, and political leader.
America's most arrested rabbi.
The original destination of the Underground Railroad.
Twelve years after the original settlment was destroyed, Fort Mose is rebuilt near the site of the original community. Many African-descended residents are ordered t...
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the S...
Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.
An account of Fort Mose is published in The Journal of Negro History, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
Leader of the fort and town of Mose.
Ownership of Fort Marion transferred to the National Park Service.
Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ash...
After evacuating the residents of the Fort Mose to the Castillo de San Marcos, Captain Francisco Menendez and his militia fight the army of General James Oglethorpe...
Local WWII patriot and Civil Rights activist.
Built in 1798, revived in 1939.
