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 ...
How a community of formerly enslaved Africans built a fortified settlement that reshaped the meaning of freedom in early America. In the early 1700s, a lesser-known escape route quietly formed beneath ...
An eighteenth-century map shows the plan of St. Augustine, the capital of the Spanish colony of Florida. The location of Fort Mose, which was established in 1738 and was home to a militia consisting ...