ACCORD Freedom Trail-Gault Street
Posted by: Markerman62
N 29° 54.498 W 081° 19.035
17R E 469373 N 3308666
Part of the Freedom Trail located in St. Augustine.
Waymark Code: WMGBYB
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/11/2013
Views: 4
Gault Street was one of the historically black residential streets in North City. Many residents worked at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Fountain of Youth, laundries and ice plants that were once located in the area.
Three Victorian houses on the west side of the street were built in the 1880s. Most of the houses on the east side of the street were built in the 1920s by Henry Proctor, descendant of one of the famous free black families of colonial Florida whose story is told in the 1992 book 'Free Men in an Age of Servitude' by Lee Warner.
Many Gault Street residents were active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. When the Roberson family, of what was then 167 Gault Street, sent their sons to integrate previously all-white Fullerwood School, their home was firebombed. Only these brick steps remain as a landmark of the heroism of this family in the cause of equality.
Marker Number: None
Date: July 2, 2007
County: St Johns
Marker Type: Plaque
Sponsored or placed by: Northrop Grumman
Website: Not listed
|
Visit Instructions:
In your log, please say if you learned something new, and if you took any extra time to explore the area once you stopped at the historic marker waymark.
Please post a photo at the marker location.