Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Mission San Luis
HISTORIC SITE
child $5/2; 10am-4pm Tue-Sun)
This 60-acre site is home to a 17th-century Spanish and Apalachee mission that's been
wonderfully reconstructed, especially the soaring Council House. Good tours included
with admission provide a fascinating taste of 300 years ago.
Knott House Museum
HISTORIC BUILDING
1-4pm Wed-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat)
This stately, white, columned 1843 house, affiliated with the history museum, is a quirky
attraction. Occupied during the Civil War by Confederate and then Union troops before the
Emancipation Proclamation was read here in 1865, it's otherwise known as 'the house that
rhymes.' That's because in 1928 it was bought by politico William V Knott, whose poet
wife, Luella, attached verses on the evils of drink to many of the furnishings.
HIDDEN GEM: SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL BLACK ARCHIVES RESEARCH
CENTER & MUSEUM
Universally referred to by its acronym, FAMU (fam-you), the
Florida Agricultural &
in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students, with 15 students and two in-
structors. Today it's home to a population of about 10,000 students of all races, as well as
GOOGLE MAP
; 850-599-3020;
www.famu.edu/BlackArchives
; 445 Gamble St; 9am-5pm Mon-
Fri). A forerunner in research on African American influence on US history and culture, the
center and museum holds one of the country's largest collections of African American
and African artifacts as well as a huge collection of papers, photographs, paintings and
documents pertaining to black American life.
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