Florida Pioneer Museum

The Florida Pioneer Museum is a historic site in Florida City that was founded in 1962 with the donation of Indian artifacts by Dr. Herbert S. Zim and with tools by a group of civic minded women.  This spot was also added to the “US National Register of Historic Places” on August 14^th 1973.  This house turned into a Museum use to be located in the Old Homestead Florida East Coast Railroad station and was moved to its current location donated by Henry & Jacqueline Brooker in the mid 1960’s.  Later in 1976, the FEC Railway was moved to the location behind the Florida Pioneer Museum and is still there today.

If you wanted to visit this historic home turned into a museum today, you would not be able to just show up for it is closed for the summer.  However, if you reach out, you can coordinate the visit and a date/time can be prearranged at no cost.  

What would you see inside this home?  They have a collection displayed of antique typewriters and business machines. Visitors to the Museum explore life as it was in South Florida in the early 1900s with rooms furnished as they would have been then with artifacts donated by local residents. Children find many items that they can touch and operate such as early telephones, cash registers and kitchen equipment. A tool room displays the agricultural implements and tools that early settlers used to plow their fields with mules. Exhibits also feature Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway, schools, churches, archeology, Native Americans, and the tourism industry.

This would be an interesting visit and I encourage you to take the kids along to appreciate the history within.

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