Eventually visiting the forts in Florida and Georgia moves into Civil War history and the foreign players fall out of it, but it really is fascinating to see how pre-Civil War events are talked ...

Visitors to the Orange County Park can see a replica of Fort Christmas, which was built on Christmas Day in 1837 amid the ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

During the Civil War, Fort Myers settlers prospered through trade ... Thomas Alva Edison stopped by the town as he was cruising along Florida’s West Coast. He eventually bought 13 acres along ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.