Dear Friends of Marion County Black History Museum, I hope everyone is doing well. Why hasn’t there been a consistent sustained effort to get a black school historical marker for Howard Academy? Howard Academy was opened in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau. At this time, only American National Thrift Association Hospital and Paradise Park at Silver Springs have Read More…
He was the son of Israel McDuffy and his wife Rebecca English. Little is known of his early life or how he got to Florida at some point before 1896. He then rented a farm in Marion County, and after a time purchased one there, comprising about Eight hundred acres, on which he had made Read More…
by Alonzo Hardy Ocala Commercial and Bazar Company – Dr. Thos. P. Lloyd, Frank P. Gadson and James W. Alexander became the first known to start an investment company in April 1891. Notice and articles of incorporation of the Ocala and Marion County Commercial Bazaar and Investment Association, filed August 21, 1891 The Ocala Commercial and Read More…