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A fort now stands at the Fort Mose historic site -- for the first time in hundreds of years

For the first time in hundreds of years, a fort now stands at Fort Mose historic site in St. Augustine. The life-sized replica aims to help tell the story of how the Underground Railroad first ran ...
The National Law Review

Fort Mose Jazz and Blues Series Tickets now on Sale

The reconstructed wooden Fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park provides visitors a look at life at the 1740 First Free Black community in North America Fort Mose Historic State Park is the site of the ...
The St. Augustine Record

Fort Mose Historic State Park was the first free-slave settlement in what would become the US

Fort Mose, located near St. Augustine, Florida, is the site of the first free-slave settlement in what is now the United States. Established in 1738, Fort Mose provided refuge for those escaping ...
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Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series returns to St. Augustine in February

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Seriesis set for its fourth event from Feb. 6-16, 2025, with Macy Gray among the announced headliners. Held at Fort Mose Historic State Park, the ...
The St. Augustine Record

Fort Mose State Park hosts groundbreaking ceremony to begin fort reconstruction

The Fort Mose Historical Society and the Florida State Parks Foundation hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Jan. 19, to begin building a full-scale replica of the original fort built in Fort ...
The Florida Times-Union

Viva Mose! We're not building golf courses in state parks. But we did build a fort in one

There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...
Miami Herald

The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine

Soldiers reenact a battle at Fort Mose. Located just outside of St. Augustine, Fort Mose was the first free, Black settlement in what would become the United States of America. Florida Park Service It ...
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Fort Mose Unveils Historic Reconstruction Project in Landmark Groundbreaking Ceremony

Honors first legally sanctioned free Black community in present-day United States ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, January 19, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a ...
The Florida Times-Union

UF professors: Resurrecting Fort Mose, America’s first sanctioned free Black settlement

More than 300 years ago, a crowded dugout canoe carrying 11 exhausted African freedom seekers arrived in St. Augustine. They had journeyed more than 200 miles from South Carolina, where they had been ...
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St. Augustine's Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series features a starry lineup

The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series returns Feb. 6-15 to St. Augustine’s Fort Mose Historic State Park. The lineup of internationally renowned artists includes Gary Clark Jr., Don Was and the ...
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Fort Mose Historic State Park was the first free-slave settlement in what would become the US

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nestled on 40 acres between a quiet St. Augustine neighborhood and the Tolomato River sits a historical site that, while not as ...