Community Of Royal – The People Kept Their Land
‘Royal- 40 Acres & A Mule Historic Tours’ –
Book yours or your group tour, today. Reservations, required.
Legacy (Regular) Tour: consists of the presentation of Royal Oral History 1 1/2 hour session, viewing artifacts in the historic center, visiting Royal’s State issued Historic Marker and viewing Royal’s Masonic Lodge and a tobacco barn.
Price (per person):
$20 for breakfast & tour $30 for lunch & tour
$40 for breakfast, lunch & tour $10 for tour only
Libation and Soil Collection: $5 extra per person
Preservation (Extended) Tour is for persons/groups traveling in a van or bus: consists of a Docent boarding the van/bus and riding Royal boundaries, a visit to the Old Slave Cemetery, a visit to a Sugar cane mill, presentation of Royal Oral History 1 1/2 hour session, viewing artifacts in the historic center, visiting Royal’s State issued Historic Marker and viewing Royal’s Masonic Lodge and a tobacco barn.
Price (per person):
$25 for breakfast & extended tour $35 for lunch & extended tour
$45 for breakfast, lunch & extended tour $15 for extended tour only
Libation and Soil Collection: $5 extra per person
Groups of 5 – 55. Minimum for tour: 5 Minimum for Tour & Eat: 25
Reservations, required: 352-748-0260 or youngartists@aol.com.
Most (95%) of our tours are inside the Alonzo A Young, Sr. Enrichment & Historical Center, 9569 County Road 235, Wildwood (Royal), FL 34785 while the historic marker, masonic hall and tobacco barn are outside. Please dress accordingly.
The Sugar Cane Mill is located on a resident’s property and may not be accessible for every tour.
Royal is one of Florida’s oldest African American communities; 5 miles west of Wildwood. Our ‘40 Acres & A Mule Tour’ will ensure that one of Florida’s oldest African American Communities, founded by former slaves from the Old Green Plantation located near the Withlacoochee River, when slavery was abolished in 1865, is not engulfed, nor enslaved by present new development or its rich heritage vanished from the State of Florida historic landscape.
One uniqueness is that Royal is made up of 40 Acres & 80 Acres parcels held from General Sherman’s 40 Acres & A Mule rule # 15. Another is that Royal is one of the last two (2) African American Communities in the nation. The other is Nicodemus, KS.
Check out our BLOG Page of oral stories that demonstrate the strong characteristics of how Royal people were able to preserve, keep then pass down the land through their generations.
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State Issued Historic Marker
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Royal Citizens…
Visit our Historic website: Community Of Royal
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COMMUNITY OF ROYAL ON TV!
Part 1 of the Florida Crossroads Documentary Florida’s Black Heritage Trail : The Central Florida Region features the Community Of Royal, one of Florida’s oldest African American communities where the freed slaves’ descendants still own their 40 Acres & A Mule. The documentary is archived.
To view – Florida’s Black Heritage Trail
Steele’s, our Founder – Book Release
“Hello, Somebody!” Beverly Steele’s 40 Aces & A Mule Stories.. Her People Kept their land! $15. Read this interesting and rare Civil War African American History.
Available on Amazon.
Young Performing Artists (YPAs), Inc. receives 10% of net book sales!
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