Florida Family History Tour!

oin Landmark historian Bill Potter as we explore the ancient sites of northeastern Florida. We will walk the streets of St. Augustine, following the life of Henry Flagler, a remarkable Christian man that transformed Florida from swampland to a haven for sun lovers and snowbirds. We tell the stories on location of the Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, and the French Huguenot colony at Jacksonville, Ft. Caroline. We will remember the courageous Reformed settlers who brought the Gospel to the natives of the region and their subsequent extermination by the Spanish for the capital crime of rejecting the Catholic Church and following the Calvinist Reformation.

We will examine the lives and times of fearless conquistadors, notorious pirates, superstitious explorers seeking the fountain of youth, the ferocious no-holds-barred Scots-Irish General Andrew Jackson who seized Florida and would not give it back, and the natives who suffered through all the invasions and fought a war with the United States that was never concluded!

Our tour culminates with a magnificent reenactment on the ground where the largest Civil War battle fought in Florida, the Battle of Olustee, was fought.