Amelia Island Museum of History in Fernandina Beach, Florida

The Amelia Island Museum of History invites guests to step back in time and experience 4,000 years of rich regional history. From the Indigenous Timucua people to Spanish and French explorers to Victorian aristocrats, the museum takes great care to show the unique phases of this area’s past and highlight the different groups that have called it home. The museum is based in the old Nassau County Jail — built in 1938 in the Art Moderne style — so even the building itself is steeped in period details. The idea for a museum first arose in the mid-1970s with the formation of the Duncan Lamont Clinc

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