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St. Augustine, Florida
Lucy Abbott, a spinster from North Carolina still in her twenties, arrived in St. Augustine in 1860 and began buying land north of the…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
After Congress funded the move in 1838, the Cumberland Island Lighthouse was dismantled brick by brick, shipped across the river, and…
Winter Park, Florida
Opened in 1932 at Rollins College and the longest continuously operating theater in Florida, this Italian Romanesque Revival building was…
Chiefland, Florida
This Levy County cemetery, just southwest of Chiefland, holds more than 400 recorded graves. Visitors describe a small boy's spirit,…
Key West, Florida
The Artist House still carries a reputation for unexplained activity and moved objects tied to Robert the doll's years there:…
Rockledge, Florida
This building opened in 1933 as Jack's Tavern and has traded under several names since, including Cooney's Tavern, the Mad Duchess, the…
Bagdad, Florida
Established in 1840 in the historic mill town of Bagdad, this Santa Rosa County cemetery holds roughly 1,000 gravestones beneath old-growth…
Anna Maria Island, Florida
Local legend tells of a bride who lost her new husband to the sea while honeymooning at this Anna Maria Island resort, and who can still be…
Eustis, Florida
Eustis's 518-seat State Theatre opened as a vaudeville house in 1922, with one of the largest photo-play pipe organs in the Southeast, and…
Orlando, Florida
At the Beacham, staff and visitors describe the ghost of an old woman seen near the stage, whose appearances come with a drastic drop in…
Marianna, Florida
Bellamy Bridge, built in 1914, is Florida's oldest surviving metal bridge and one of the state's most famous ghost stories. Local legend…
Bellaire, Florida
Railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant built the Belleview Biltmore in 1897, and it grew into one of Florida's grandest Gilded Age resorts, added…
Coral Gables, Florida
The Biltmore Hotel, a National Historic Landmark completed in 1926, served as a military hospital during and after World War II before…
Freeport, Florida
Local legend holds that in the early 1900s, a young girl and her little brother cut through the graveyard next to Black Creek's old 1800s…
Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida East Coast Railway engineer William T. Jones built this neoclassical and Georgian-style home in 1909 using a $6,000 railroad injury…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1914 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this Mediterranean Revival inn on Avenida Menendez stands on ground…
Cassadaga, Florida
Built in 1927 in the Spanish style, this hotel sits at the center of Cassadaga, a spiritualist community established in 1894 by the…
Cassadaga, Florida
Founded in 1894 by the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association, Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp is a small historic community…
St. Augustine, Florida
After pirates nearly overran St. Augustine in 1668, Queen Mariana of Spain ordered a proper stone fort built to defend the colony;…
Brandon, Florida
Local memory holds that a girl named Matilda, roughly ten years old and the daughter of a chicken farmer who once worked this site in the…
Pensacola, Florida
Clara Barkley Dorr had this Victorian house built in 1871 to raise her five children after her husband Eben, a Bagdad lumber-company…
Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater Beach hosted a Coast Guard rifle range and an Army encampment during World War II. Local legend tells of a young woman in a…
Miami, Florida
Paramount Pictures opened this Art Deco movie palace on Lincoln Road in 1935. After decades of mixed use, the City of Miami Beach invested…
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Cordova Inn in downtown St. Petersburg was built in 1921 as the Hotel Scott and was renamed Hotel Cordova in 1923 after the Cordova…