“The Voice of Lincolnville”, Carrie Johnson, has invited Historic City News readers and friends to attend the annual Lincolnville Community Christmas Caroling on Tuesday evening, December 22nd.

Immediately after the negotiations with the United States in 1790, Spain no longer granted freedom to fugitive slaves who found their way to Spanish Florida.

The Death of the citrus industry in Northeast Florida

Part II of a two-part series.

By Geoff Dobson

Guest columnist Derek Boyd Hankerson reported to Historic City News that he recently returned from Tallahassee where he made a presentation at the new visitor center at Mission San Luis on the topic of America’s Underground Railroad.

Maritime archaeologist and diver Brendan Burke reported to Historic City News that tonight, as part of the Discover First America: Legacies of La Florida series, he and Pat Croce will present “Pirates! Fact and Fiction”.

Historic City News has learned that St. Johns County District 3 Commissioner Mark Partridge Miner and Cheryl Joy Whitley were married on Saturday, November 28, 2009 in a sunset ceremony at Alpine Groves Park.

From the records of Cheryl Strickland St. Johns County Clerk of Court

From the records of Cheryl Strickland St. Johns County Clerk of Court