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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 121
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Title, Dates: Florida historical markers photographs, ca. 1940s.
Amount: 10 photographs
Medium Included: photographs
Organization/Arrangement: Arranged by subject.
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Biographical/Historical:     Established in 1935, one of the major functions of the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials was the identification and marking of historic sites. Such sites included early towns, roads, banks, military forts, or historic events such as Civil War battles, constitutional conventions, or significant inventions. Once a site was selected, a short historic essay was written, often authored by well-known Florida historians such as Samuel Proctor, William Warren Rogers, and Dena Snodgrass. Finally, a two-sided metal plaque would be erected on or nearby the historic site. Often a community or town would solicit such a marker from the Board. During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) assisted with historical markers by funding the placement and descriptions of historical markers.
Summary:     The collection contains photographs of Florida historical markers from the 1940s. It includes four images of Ellicott's Mound, which marked the 1800 Spanish Florida-Georgia border near the St. Mary's River. Ellicott's Mound is currently located in Charlton County, Georgia. Included in these photographs is state geologist Herman Gunter, who at the time was Director of the Florida Geological Survey. Another four photographs document the original marker for Concord Missionary Baptist Church, the site of the first Florida Baptist Convention in Greenville (Madison County), Florida. Finally, there are two photographs of an unidentified marker in Pensacola.
Finding Aids: Folder listing available. 0
Additional Physical Form: Images from this collection are available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-117.
Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: Gunter, Herman.
Historic sites Florida
Historical markers.
Photographs. aat
Georgia.
Madison County (Fla.)
Pensacola (Fla.)
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