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~America’s First Site of Freedom ready to welcome visitors to St. Augustine’s newest historic fort~ Our hope is that, in the years to come, Fort Mose will inspire countless visitors from around the ...

A dream more than 30 years in the making, and carrying nearly three centuries of Floridian, American and African American history, is now a reality. A ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning at America ...

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 ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — This will be a historic weekend in St. Augustine, as hundreds are expected to get their first look at the newly constructed replica of the 1738 Fort Mose. A ribbon-cutting ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Behind every state park, there is a story. Sometimes it's a crazy story, really, like that of Fort Mose, almost hidden away in a tangled forest of scrub palmetto, oak and pine ...

Established in 1738 by Colonial Spanish Florida’s Governor Manuel Montiano, Fort Mose gave sanctuary to Africans challenging enslavement in the English colony of Carolina. Approximately 100 Africans ...