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The future of a former jail in St. Augustine, Florida, that once held Martin Luther King Jr. is uncertain as officials weigh demolition requests. Local historians and activists are petitioning to ...
Editor's Note: The following article was first published on June 15, 2015, as part of The Record's "Where History Lives" series where, every Monday, we give readers a glimpse of the area's ...
Now jails are removing mugshots to combat the scheme Some Northeast Florida jails ... on June 3. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. A 56-year-old man was booked into the St. Johns County Jail on Wednesday ...
St. Augustine's Old Jail was built in 1891 to accommodate the ... The Old Jail can be found a mile northwest of downtown's historic area by the Florida Heritage Museum and Ponce de Leon's Fountain ...
The arrests took place in 1964 after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., himself jailed, sought their help amid civil rights ...
Just a week earlier, King was arrested in St. Augustine for ... suggests taking the few jail cell bars that are left and recreating a cell inside the forthcoming Florida Black History Museum ...