Florida
448 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Cape Canaveral and the Space Age, Florida's Twentieth-Century Identity
- Citrus, Cattle, and the Inland Economy
- Cuban and Caribbean Florida, A Century of Arrivals
- Flagler and Plant, The Men Who Built the Peninsula
- Saint Augustine, Oldest Continuous European Settlement in the United States
- Statehood and the Antebellum Peninsula, Eighteen Forty-Five
- The Calusa, Lords of the Southern Shore
- The Everglades, A River of Grass
- The Florida Aquifer and the Coasts, Water Beneath and Beside
- The Land Boom and the Great Florida Bust, Nineteen Twenty-Six
- The Seminole Wars, Florida's Longest Conflict
- The Timucua and Apalachee, The Northern Half
Near Clearwater Beach
Near Daytona
- Bike Week: When Half a Million Motorcycles Come to Town
- Bill France and the Birth of NASCAR
- Daytona Beach: Where Racing Left the Sand
- Daytona International Speedway
- DeLand: The Baking Powder Man's Athens
- Howard Thurman: The Theologian Who Taught King
- Jackie Robinson Ballpark: The Game That Changed America
- Mary McLeod Bethune: Dollar Fifty and a Dream
- New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins: Florida's Antebellum Industry in Stone
- Nocoroco: A Thousand Years at the River's Edge
- Ormond Beach: The Birthplace of Speed
- Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse: Tallest in Florida
- Tarragona Tower: Daytona's Mediterranean Folly
- The Birthplace of Speed: Racing on the Sand
- The Coquina Bandshell: Stone Born in the Sea
- The Founders: Matthias Day and the Halifax River Frontier
- The Segregated Shore: Bethune Beach and the Fight for the Water
- The Streamline Hotel: Art Deco on the Atlantic
- The Track That Built NASCAR
- Three Towns Into One: The 1926 Merger and the Modern City
Near Destin
- Crab Island, the Vanished Island
- Eglin Air Force Base and the Doolittle Raiders
- Henderson Beach State Park
- Leonard Destin, the Fisherman Who Named a Village
- Sand From the Mountains
- The Destin Fishing Rodeo
- The East Pass, Cut by Hand
- The Indian Temple Mound
- The Marler Bridge
- The Primrose and the Fishing Museum
- The World's Luckiest Fishing Village
- Why the Big Fish Come Close
Near Fort Lauderdale
- Bahia Mar, Where Travis McGee Docked
- Boca Raton: Addison Mizner's Dream That Went Broke
- Boca Raton: Tequesta Ground to Resort to Airfield to Suburb
- Bonnet House and Evelyn Bartlett
- Coral Springs: Tequesta Shore to Drained Farmland to Instant City
- Dania Beach: Broward's Oldest City, Built by Danes
- Deerfield Beach: Named for the Deer Along the River
- Flight Nineteen: The Lost Squadron
- Frank Stranahan and the New River Trading Post
- Historic Sistrunk: The Oldest Black Community
- Hugh Taylor Birch and His Gift of Green
- Incorporation, the Land Boom, and Las Olas
- Indian Haulover and Fort Lauderdale
- Ivy Stranahan, Mother of Fort Lauderdale
- Joseph Young's Dream City to the South
- Major William Lauderdale and the Fort That Named a City
- Miami to Fort Lauderdale: The Gold Coast Corridor
- Pine Island Ridge and Abiaka's Stand
- Pompano Beach: A Town Named After Dinner
- Port Everglades and the Wedding of the Waters
- Sailboat Bend and the Riverwalk
- Stranahan House: The Oldest Building in Broward
- The Beach Wade-Ins of Nineteen Sixty One
- The Great Hurricane of Nineteen Twenty-Six
- The New River and Its Swinging Bridges
- The New River Tunnel: Florida's First
- The Seminole Who Came to Trade
- The Swap Shop: Flea Market, Drive-In, and Florida Institution
- The Venice of America: Canals Dredged from the Mangroves
- The World's Largest Boat Show
Near Fort Myers
- Cape Coral: The City That Drained a Swamp and Sold the Pieces
- Edison and Ford on the Caloosahatchee
- Estero, Florida
- Fort Harvie and the Seminole Wars: The Fort That Became a City
- Four Hundred Miles of Water: The Canals of Cape Coral
- Francis Hendry: Cattle King and Father of Fort Myers
- Hurricane Ian: The Storm That Rewrote the Coast
- Koreshan Unity: The Hollow Earth Utopia of Estero
- McCollum Hall: Jazz, Jim Crow, and the Chitlin' Circuit
- Terry Park: One Hundred Years of Spring Training
- The Battle of Fort Myers: Black Soldiers at the End of the War
- The Calusa: Masters of Shell and Sea
- The Gulf American Land Fraud: Selling the Dream They Didn't Have
- The Tamiami Trail: Thirteen Years, Eight Million Dollars, a Swamp Defeated
- What Was Here Before: Cape Coral
- What Was Here Before: Lehigh Acres
Near Gainesville
- Convict Leasing in Florida: Prison Labor After Slavery
- Cotton, Phosphate, and the University
- Devil's Millhopper, a World Below
- Gatorade, Born in a Florida Summer
- Haile Homestead: The Talking Walls and the People Who Built Them
- Hogtown and the Seminole Pigs
- Josiah Walls and the Contested Congress
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Scrub
- Newnansville: Florida's Forgotten Fourth City
- Paynes Prairie and William Bartram's Vision
- Paynes Prairie: Cattle, Seminole Kings, and Wild Bison
- Pleasant Street and Union Academy: Freedom Built in Brick and Wood
- Reconstruction Terror: Eight Lynchings and the Weight of the Record
- The Battle of Gainesville: August Seventeen, Eighteen Sixty-Four
- The Gainesville Ripper: Five Students and the Fear That Lingered
- The Hippodrome and the Town That Came Back Downtown
- The Newberry Six: A Mass Lynching and Eighty Years of Silence
- The Potano and a Thousand Years of Continuity
- The Potano and the World Before Gainesville
- The Railroad That Built a City
- The Seaboard Depot: Where Jim Crow Ran on Rails
- The University of Florida: From Seminary to Flagship
- The Yearling Country and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Tom Petty, Don Felder, and the Rock and Roll Capital of the Swamp
- Virgil Hawkins and the Long Wait
Near Jacksonville
- A. Philip Randolph: Florida Roots, National Force
- Ax Handle Saturday
- Bethel Baptist Institutional Church: Jacksonville's Oldest Congregation
- Eartha M. M. White and the City She Held Together
- Edward Waters University: Florida's Oldest HBCU
- Fort Caroline and the Matanzas Massacre
- Henry Flagler and the Gateway City
- Jacksonville: The Bold City
- Jacksonville: Where the River Bends and the Road South Begins
- Kingsley Plantation and the World of Zephaniah and Anna
- Lift Every Voice and Sing: James Weldon Johnson and LaVilla
- Naval Air Station Jacksonville and the Military City
- Norman Studios and Jacksonville as the Film Capital
- The Great Fire of Nineteen Oh One
- The Maple Leaf and the Civil War Below the Surface
- The St. Johns River: One of the Few That Flows North
- The Timucua and the River They Called Home
Near Lakeland
- A City Built on Water
- Bone Valley, the Graveyard Beneath Your Wheels
- Fantasy of Flight: Kermit Weeks and the Collection That Survived a Hurricane
- Fort Foster: Sailors Fighting Indians in the Florida Flatwoods
- Frances Langford, the Voice from Lakeland
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Experiment
- George Jenkins and the Grocery Store That Changed Florida
- Lake Mirror and the City Beautiful
- Lodwick's Pilots and the World War Two Sky
- Moorehead, the Community the City Erased
- Plant City: Strawberry Capital of the World
- Plant City: The Magnate Who Built a Railroad Town
- Polk City: Crossroads at the Heart of Polk County
- Polk County's Racial Terror and the Fight Back
- Sun 'n Fun, Aviation's Season Opener
- The Florida Pool: MGM's Aquatic Stage
- The Freeze That Remade Florida
- The Polk Theatre and the Age of the Picture Palace
- The Swans That Queen Elizabeth Sent
- The Tigers Come to Town
- The Town Abraham Munn Built
- Washington Park High and the Education They Built Themselves
Near Miami
- Burger King: The Flame That Started Here
- Calle Ocho and Little Havana
- Calle Ocho and the Exile Capital
- Coconut Grove's Bahamian Founders: The Black Miami That Predates Miami
- Coral Gables: Tequesta Homeland to City Beautiful
- Draining the Everglades
- Elian Gonzalez: The Six-Year-Old and the Immigration War
- Florida International University: The Airport University
- George Merrick, Coral Gables, and the Biltmore
- Hialeah Park and Its Flamingos
- Julia Tuttle, the Mother of Miami
- Liberty City and the McDuffie Verdict
- Liberty City: What I-95 Destroyed and What Survived
- Little Haiti
- Little Haiti and the AIDS Stigma
- Mariel Boatlift: A Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand in Six Months
- Opa-locka: Glenn Curtiss and the City of a Thousand and One Nights
- Operation Pedro Pan: Fourteen Thousand Children Sent Ahead
- Overtown and the Highway That Cut It Apart
- Prohibition, Rum Runners, and Al Capone
- The 1980 Liberty City Uprising: Arthur McDuffie and What Followed
- The City the Exiles Built
- The Cocaine Cowboys
- The Freedom Tower, Cuba's Ellis Island
- The Great Land Boom and Bust
- The Great Miami Hurricane of Nineteen Twenty Six
- The Mariel Arrivals: Who Those People Actually Were
- The Mariel Boatlift
- The Perfect Season at the Orange Bowl
- The Tequesta and the Miami Circle
- The Tequesta Circle: A Two-Thousand-Year-Old Settlement Under a Hotel Site
- Versailles and the Cuban Exile Coffee Window
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
- Vizcaya: The Villa and the Labor That Built It
- Wynwood: The Art That Displaced a Neighborhood
Near Naples
- At the Edge of the Everglades
- Barron Collier and the County He Bought With a Road
- From Fishing Colony to Florida's Wealthiest City
- General Williams, Walter Haldeman, and the Plan of Naples
- Hamilton Disston and the Land Deal That Created Southwest Florida
- Hurricane Donna and the Day the County Seat Moved
- Naples in World War Two: The Airdrome on the Gulf
- Naples: From Frontier Outpost to the Wealthiest Town on the Gulf
- The Calusa: A Civilization Built on the Sea
- The Naples Pier: One Hundred Thirty-Five Years on the Gulf
- The Tamiami Trail: A Road Through the Impossible
- Tin City: Naples Before the Condos
Near Ocala
- December Twenty-Eighth, Eighteen Thirty-Five
- Fort King: Where the Second Seminole War Began
- Horse Capital of the World: Reading the Pastures of Marion County
- Howard Academy: Education Under Jim Crow
- Needles: The Sickly Foal Who Became a Legend
- Ocala National Forest: Roosevelt's Gift and the New Deal's Masterpiece
- Ocala Union Station: Where Two Rivals Shared One Roof
- Paradise Park, the Other Silver Springs
- Plantation County: Slavery, Cotton, and the World That War Ended
- Silver Springs: America's First Tourist Attraction
- The Limestone Under Everything
- The Monkeys of Silver River: Florida's Most Surprising Wildlife Story
- The Ocala Demands: When Farmers Changed American Politics
- The Province of Ocali: First Peoples of the Silver Springs Country
- The Springs in Trouble: What Nitrate Is Doing to Ancient Water
- The Thanksgiving Fire That Built Brick City
- The Treaty That Started a War
- West Ocala: A Community That Built Its Own World
Near Orlando
- Camping World Stadium: Orlando's Field of a Thousand Names
- Celebration: Seminole Cattle Country Becomes Disney's Model Town
- Church Street Station, The Railroad Made This City
- Cracker Cattle Country, The Florida Cowman Before the Mouse
- Disney's Secret, How the Mouse Bought Central Florida
- Eatonville, The Town That Refused to Be a Footnote
- Eatonville: The First Incorporated Black Town
- Kerouac in College Park, The Road Runs Through Here
- Kissimmee Station: The Railroad That Made a Cow Town
- Lake Eola and the Swans, The Park at the Heart of the City
- Osceola County Courthouse: Florida's Oldest Active Courthouse
- Pulse Memorial, Orlando
- Pulse, June Twelve, Two Thousand Sixteen
- Sanford and the Celery Delta, A Town Built on Muck
- SeaWorld and the Reckoning
- The Citrus Freeze, When Two Nights Ended an Industry
- The Naming of Orlando, Myth, Soldier, and Sentinel Tree
- The Ocoee Massacre, Election Day, Nineteen Twenty
- The Seminole Nation, People Who Were Never Conquered
- Universal Orlando: The Six-Hundred-Million-Dollar Bet
- Walt Disney World: The Dream Opens
- Walt Disney's Secret Land Purchase
- Wells'Built Hotel: Orlando's Chitlin' Circuit Address
- Winter Park and Rollins, A College Town Built for the North
- Zora Neale Hurston: The Ethnographer Almost Erased
Near Panama City Beach
- Camp Helen and Lake Powell's Rare Dune Lake
- Gulf World and the Marine Park Era
- Hurricane Michael: The Day the Panhandle Broke
- Miracle Strip: Florida's First Roller Coaster
- Russell-Fields Pier: A Mile of Fishing Over the Gulf
- Saint Andrews State Park: Guns in the Dunes
- Shell Island and the Pass
- The World's Most Beautiful Beaches: Sand Born in the Appalachians
- Tyndall Air Force Base: Guarding the Gulf Since Pearl Harbor
- Why the Water Glows Emerald
Near Pensacola
- Barrancas National Cemetery: Union, Confederate, and the Price of the Bay
- Escambia High School and the Long Fight Over Desegregation
- Fort Pickens and the Civil War's Nearly First Shot
- Geronimo at Fort Pickens
- Julee Cottage and Pensacola's Free Black Community
- Milton: Scratch Ankle to Canoe Capital
- Muscogee, Ghost Town of the Pine Barons
- Palafox Street: The Street That Five Empires Built
- Plaza Ferdinand VII: Where Florida Became American
- The 1781 Siege: Bernardo de Gálvez and the Battle That Helped Win the Revolution
- The City of Five Flags
- The Cradle of Naval Aviation
- The Longleaf Pine Port: Pensacola's Lumber Boom
- The Museum Name Change: T.T. Wentworth and the KKK
- The Yellow Fever Years
- Tristán de Luna and the Lost Colony
Near Sarasota
- Bertha Palmer, the Cattle Queen of Sarasota
- Circus Capital of the World
- Five Thousand Years at Spanish Point
- John Ringling's House of John
- LECOM Park: A Century of Spring Baseball
- Lido Beach, Nineteen Fifty-Five
- Myakka River, Florida's Only Wild and Scenic River
- Narváez's Disaster: First Contact on the Bay
- Newtown, the Neighborhood That Built Sarasota
- Siesta Key and the Sand That Comes from Mountains
- The Boom, the Bust, and Ringling's Empty Bank Account
- The Failed Scottish Colony and the Man Who Stayed
- The Sarasota School of Architecture
- The Shark Lady and the Lab on City Island
- Yellow Bluffs, Sarasota's First Settler
Near St Petersburg
Near St. Augustine
- Castillo de San Marcos and the Stone That Swallowed Cannonballs
- Flagler's Hotel Ponce de Leon
- Fort Mose, the First Free Black Town
- Fort Mose: America's First Free Black Town
- Four Flags Over the Plaza
- Francisco Menéndez: The Fort Mose Captain
- Lincolnville and the 1964 St. Augustine Civil Rights Campaign
- Mala Compra Plantation: Where the Seminole War Came Ashore
- Matanzas, the Inlet of Slaughters
- Osceola and the Seminole Prisoners
- Osceola: Captured Under a Flag of Truce
- Ponce de Leon's First Glimpse of Florida
- Saint Augustine: The Oldest European-Founded City
- St. Johns County and Saint Augustine: The Oldest City
- The Bridge of Lions
- The Founding of the Oldest City
- The Fountain of Youth and the Ponce de Leon Legend
- The Hotel Alcazar and the Lightner Museum
- The Menorcans and the Datil Pepper
- The Night Sir Francis Drake Burned the Town
- The Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse
- The Saint Augustine Lighthouse
- The Timucua Nation: First Contact, Last Generation
- World Golf Hall of Fame
Near Tallahassee
- Canopy Roads: The Oaks That Held the Old World Together
- Chaires, Florida: Where Plantation Country Met the Seminole Wars
- De Soto at Anhaica: The Winter That Changed Everything
- Escambe: The Last Apalachee Village
- FAMU: Built on a Former Plantation, Built for a Future
- FAMU: The Black University That Outlasted Legislative Contempt
- Frenchtown: The Soul of a City That Built Itself Twice
- Goodwood: Cotton, Copper, and the People Who Built It All
- Lake Jackson and the Lords of the Mounds
- Lake Jackson Mounds: Capital of a Lost Kingdom
- Lloyd Depot: Florida's Oldest Surviving Brick Train Station
- Maclay Gardens: A New York Financier's Winter Eden
- Mission San Luis: The Capital at the Edge of Empire
- Natural Bridge: The Last Confederate Capital
- Patricia Stephens Due and the Letter from Leon County Jail
- Smokey Hollow: A Community the Capitol Erased
- Tallahassee to Jacksonville: The Florida Interior
- The Apalachee Mission System and Its Destruction in 1704
- The Bus Boycott: Walking in Dignity
- The Cotton Kingdom: Leon County at Its Dark Peak
- The Knott House: Freedom Read from a Porch
- The Lewis Spring House: Florida's Only Frank Lloyd Wright Home
- The Old Capitol and the State It Built
- The Old Fields: Why Tallahassee Became the Capital
- The Waterfall That Built a Capital
- Union Bank: From Cotton Debt to Freedmen's Savings
- Wakulla Springs: Bones at the Bottom of the World
Near Tampa Bay
- Bone Valley: Phosphate Beneath the Bay
- Cracker Country: The Florida That Came Before the Theme Parks
- Gasparilla: The Invented Pirate
- Henry B. Plant and the Tampa Bay Hotel
- Henry Plant's Impossible Hotel
- Hillsborough River State Park: The CCC and Florida's Oldest Park
- La Unión Martí-Maceo: A Minority Within a Minority
- MacDill: Tampa's Secret Headquarters
- Martí's Ybor: Where Cuban Independence Was Born
- Martin Chambers and the White Hats
- Robert Saunders and the NAACP's Florida Campaign
- Sun City Center: Tocobaga Ground Becomes a City Without Children
- The Bay Itself
- The Centros: Immigrant Medicine Before Medicare
- The Cuban Sandwich and Its City
- The Lector's Platform
- The Rough Riders' Tampa Summer
- The Scrub: What Interstate 275 Erased
- The Ybor Cigar at Its Peak
- The Ybor Workers and Their Newspapers
- Ybor City: The Anarchist Cigar Capital
- Ybor City's Bolita: The Underground Economy
Along the way
- Apalachicola National Forest: The Largest in Florida and the War It Trained For
- Apollo Eleven Was Launched From Ais Territory
- Baldwin: Where Two Railroads Crossed
- Battle of Lake Okeechobee: Christmas Day, Eighteen Thirty-Seven
- Bonifay: Named by the Railroad, Seat of Holmes County
- Boynton Beach: The Major's Mile of Oceanfront
- Burnsed Blockhouse: Florida's Last Frontier Fort
- Cape Canaveral: The Launch Coast
- Caryville: Sawmill Town on the Choctawhatchee
- Cassadaga: America's Psychic Capital
- Celebration: Disney's Experiment in Utopian Town-Building
- Challenger: Seventy-Three Seconds
- Chattahoochee: Arsenal, Prison, and the State's First Asylum
- Chie no Wa: Delray Beach and Miyazu
- Chipley: Tank Pond and the Man Who Named a Town for Himself
- Columbia: February First, Two Thousand Three
- Coral Castle: The Latvian and the Limestone
- Cottondale: The Panhandle Railroad Cotton Town
- Cradle to Grave: The Battle of Marianna
- Crestview: Hub City of the Panhandle
- De Leon Springs: Sugar, Seminoles, and a Fountain of Youth That Never Was
- DeBary Hall: The Steamboat Baron's Winter Villa
- DeFuniak Springs, Chautauqua on the Perfect Circle
- Delray Beach: From Linton to Del Rey
- Florida City and Flagler's Last Railroad
- Fort Pierce: Seminole Wars, Navy SEALs, and the Treasure Coast
- Glen St. Mary: A Sick Stockbroker Who Planted a Town
- Greenville: Ray Charles Grew Up Here
- Hurricane Andrew: The Category Five That Erased Homestead
- Jupiter Inlet Life-Saving Station
- Jupiter Inlet: The Light That Was Buried in the Ground
- Kelsey City: The Boom Town That Changed Its Name
- Lake Worth Beach: The Town Fannie James Built First
- Lantana, Florida: Named for a Weed
- Live Oak: Florida's Inland Railroad Hub
- Macclenny: The Railroad Town That Stole the County Seat
- Marianna: Named for Two Daughters, Won by a Bribe
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the River of Grass
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A River, Not a Swamp
- Melbourne Village: Florida's Experiment in Intentional Living
- Mercury Seven Monument: America's First Astronauts
- Miccosukee Indian Reservation
- Mims, Florida: Where Harry T. Moore Was Killed
- Ocala National Forest: Silver Springs and the Big Scrub
- Olustee: Florida's Bloodiest Civil War Battle
- Olustee: Florida's Largest Civil War Battle and the Men Who Won It
- Orange City: The Minnesotans Who Came for Their Health
- Perkins Opera House: Monticello's Grand Stage
- Phosphate and the Boom That Remade Marion County
- Ponce de Leon, Florida
- Pritchard House: Titusville's Victorian Relic
- Quincy: The Town That Got Rich on Coca-Cola
- Rockledge, Florida: Florida's Oldest Incorporated City
- Scottsmoor, Florida: A Civil War Settlement That Survived
- Seaside: From Creek Country to the First New Urbanist Town
- Seminole Women: Keepers of the Nation
- Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center
- Tequesta, Florida: Named for the People Who Were Here First
- The 1928 Hurricane Mass Grave
- The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane: The Dead Nobody Counted
- The Bronson-Mulholland House: Palatka's Witness to Two Wars
- The Dade Battle: How the Second Seminole War Began
- The Four Freedoms Monument and Captain Colin Kelly
- The Miccosukee: A Separate Nation on the Tamiami Trail
- The Rosewood Massacre and the 1994 Apology
- The Skunk Ape: Florida's Everglades Cryptid
- The Space Coast Gateway, Titusville and the Edge of Everything
- The Three Seminole Wars: Unconquered
- The Unconquered: Three Seminole Wars and the Everglades Refuge
- The White House: What Happened at Dozier
- Weeki Wachee Springs: Florida's Underwater Theater
- Westville: The County Seat That Moved
- Windover: The Pond That Held Seven Thousand Years
- Yamato Colony: Japan's Farming Outpost in Boca Raton