Programs – Historic LPMS

Our Programs

Lincoln Park Main Street’s Heritage Education Programs are dedicated to preserving, documenting, and sharing the rich history, culture, and lived experiences of the Lincoln Park community.

Through archival preservation, storytelling, historical research, and interactive learning, these programs ensure that local history is accessible, accurate, and passed down to future generations. By highlighting the contributions of African Americans who shaped Lincoln Park and the City of Fort Pierce, LPMS fosters community pride, cultural awareness, and educational enrichment for residents, students, and visitors alike.

Heritage Education Programs

Lincoln Park Black Archives

Knowledge of local history is just as important as knowledge of national history; because at home or in the local area, residents can experience the accounts of history being made first hand. African Americans must continue and strive everyday to educate, inform, and inspire the youth to learn of the history of its ancestors everyday of the year.

Lincoln Park Black Archives, is a centralized repository for gathering, collecting, displaying, presenting and educating the public of the rich heritage and culture of Lincoln Park through an exhibit of yearbooks, court documents, books, stories, pictures, memorabilia, facts, equipment, household items, records and stereos.

Through this formal program, public understanding and awareness of the history of Lincoln Park is raised and the stories can be told, documented and preserved for generations to come.

Lincoln Park Points of Interest

Highlight points of interest in historic Lincoln Park. This directory will provide residents and visitors alike with locations and background information on various places, people and their contributions in Lincoln Park.

Residents will not have to venture outside of the community to capture a glimpse of the many contributions made to the city by local residents, citizens and imports from other areas. You can travel along the Avenue D corridor east to west from U.S. Highway 1 to Angle Road and visit historical sites and landmarks named in honor of local African Americans who have become the “first” to be appointed, hired, coach, elected, and the likes.

Pioneers of Lincoln Park

A compilation on the background of community and/or civic members and/or leaders from the Lincoln Park community that have made a significant impact in the community and who have not previously been honored with a building structure and/or park in their name. The individuals both past and present identified in the published document have contributed to the growth and development of the Lincoln Park community spanning more than 100 years. A thorough investigation into their life works, occupations, educations, community involvement and civic leadership has been vetted by our organization through records, historians, facts, and interviews.

Center for African American Art, History and Culture

To capture that history and tell the stories of those African Americans descendants who played pivotal roles in the development of the United States. The center is important to African American culture because African cultures, slavery, slave rebellions, and the civil rights movement have shaped African-American religious, familial, political, and economic behaviors.

The imprint of Africa is evident in a myriad of ways: in politics, economics, language, music, hairstyles, fashion, dance, religion, cuisine, and worldview. The Center is dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the contributions and accomplishments of African Americans in the United States, it is designed to educate and inform the public by offering an interactive curriculum focusing on history and the arts. This center is located at the:

Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library

3008 Avenue D

Fort Pierce, Florida 34950

Oral and Digital History

A compilation of videos, interviews, discussions, photos, documents, presentations and recordings from trailblazers and historians in the Lincoln Park community that gives an account of the events of an era that spans more than 70 years. The use of pictures and interviews will be used to present factual events in a pictorial method in the Lincoln Park Black Archives Exhibit.

Museum Address

Historic Site Hours

Box Office Hours

On Site Box Closed

Send email to: boxoffice@lincolnparkmainstreet.org