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UF professors: Resurrecting Fort Mose, America’s first sanctioned free Black settlement

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fort Mose Historic State Park unveiled plans for a reconstruction of the 1738 Fort Mose, the site of the first legally sanctioned ...
Tampa Bay Times

Florida’s Fort Mose was America’s first legally sanctioned free Black settlement | Column

Fort Mose changed the international political landscape of 18th century America, which is one reason it is today a National Historic Landmark. This is Nancy Christensen’s artistic interpretation of ...
The Florida Times-Union

Viva Mose! We're not building golf courses in state parks. But we did build a fort in one

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 ...
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Fort Mose State Park hosts groundbreaking ceremony to begin fort reconstruction

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 ...
The St. Augustine Record

Fort Mose Historic State Park was the first free-slave settlement in what would become the US

Fort Mose, located near St. Augustine, Florida, is the site of the first free-slave settlement in what is now the United States. Established in 1738, Fort Mose provided refuge for those escaping ...
The Tennessean

St. Augustine's Fort Mose and the ongoing efforts to resurrect its buried past

ST. AUGUSTINE — Wander down the long wooden boardwalk at Fort Mose Historic State Park, and you'll be immersed in pure Florida nature as you drink in the view of a tranquil salt marsh and a tiny ...
The St. Augustine Record

Fort Mose's 'Flight to Freedom' to become year-round Black history trail in St. Augustine

Fort Mose will launch a Black history trail to educate visitors about slaves' "flight to freedom" to St. Augustine centuries ago. The fort was the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in ...
Essence

U.N. Recognizes Fort Mose, Free Black Town Established 127 Years Before Juneteenth

People love to share hypotheticals about how they would have lived in Trans-Atlantic slave societies. Many overstate their courage. Then, they underestimate marginalized groups’ knowledge and ...
The Business Journals

Renderings for Fort Mose reconstruction revealed

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Fort Mose Historic State Park in ...
AZ Central

St. Augustine's Fort Mose gains more exposure, over $1.23M boost from grants, jazz series

Fort Mose Historic State Park has raised more than $1.23 million through grants and its first jazz and blues series, which also welcomed new people to the site of the first legally sanctioned free ...
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Photo Diary: Fort Mose, St Augustine FL

Fort Mose was the first free African-American community to be established in North America. For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo ...
The Business Journals

South Florida distiller makes financial commitment to Fort Mose

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Inspired by the story of the ...