The newsroom received word from Park Service Specialist Terri Newmans that Historic City News readers are invited to attend when the Fort Mose Historic State Park celebrates the first free black community in the United States.
Within the next 60 days, Historic City News is anticipating that the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners will adopt “impact fee” structures associated with findings made in a recent study completed by Dr. James Nicholas of the University of Florida.
Derek Hankerson, Managing Partner with Freedom Road, LLC., told local Historic City News reporters that he will be addressing representatives from the St. Johns County Library system to inform them about the 2012 National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Conference.
Tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Flagler College Auditorium located at 14 Granada Street, Historic City News readers are invited to attend a presentation from guest speaker Miri Rubin; medieval and early modern history professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Flagler College President Dr. William T. Abare, Jr. announced to Historic City News local reporters that the college has received a $2.5 million bequest from the estate of Mary L. F. “Molly” Wiley, sister of the College’s founder Lawrence Lewis, Jr.
Historic City News has learned that a St. Augustine man has been killed over the weekend in a crane collapse at Jaxport.
With all the pomp and circumstance of a regal coronation, Historic City News was on hand to witness St. Augustine’s Royal Family exchange roles for the coming year.
Twenty years before the nation learned of the brutal murder of Nicole Brown-Simpson; another murder was taking place here in St. Augustine — with many eerie similarities.
