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Unit Name: Fort Mose Historic State Park
Acres: 41.46 Managing
Agency:
Description:
DRP
Current Management Plan
Approved:
Although nothing remains of the fort itself, this site was listed on the National Register of Historic
Places in 1994 for its importance in American history. Fort Mose was the first free African-
American community in North America. Visitors may view the site from a boardwalk and stop by
the park’s visitor center gain an understanding of the dramatic story of the Spanish Governor’s
offer of freedom to enslaved persons in English Colonial America, in the early 1700’s. A covered
picnic pavilion is available, and a series of interpretive features are planned for the park.
Accomplishments:
Resource Management
• Accelerated exotic plant removal with Bureau of Invasive Plant Management grant.
Visitor Services
• Interpretive programs “Colonial Cooking” “Historic Gardening” “Musket Drill” “Layers of Life
archaeology program” initiated.
Capital Improvements
• Constructed museum interpretive displays.
Other
• Established a new event: “Battle of Bloody Mose” to be held annually.
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2005