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    • Home Page
    • Royal History Past
    • Royal Present & Future
      • National Registry (NRH)
      • FL Heritage Documentary
      • Royal Historical Snippets
    • Royal 40 Acres & A Mule
  • Home Page
  • Royal History Past
  • Royal Present & Future
    • National Registry (NRH)
    • FL Heritage Documentary
    • Royal Historical Snippets
  • Royal 40 Acres & A Mule

One of Florida's oldest African American Communities



The official Historic Website of Community of Royal, Sumter County, Florida.  A National Historic Registry Listed Rural Historic District. Formed in 1865, by Freedmen who received their land because of General Sherman's Special Field Order #15 and passed down through their generation.  The people kept their land. 


Royals Oldest Citizens (Click on pictures for additional information.)

 Reverend Matthew Beard, 

lived 115 years 

Mother Polly Wideman, 

lived 109 years

Mother Peggy Olivia Davis, 

lived 103 years 

Edward González-Tennant, Ph.D., RPA

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Associate Director, CHAPS Program 

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. 

ELABN 349, 1201 W. University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539

Introduction to the community of Royal

A Pictorial: Royal's Present & Past

Links

National Registry (NRHP) Nomination Pkg

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Cultrual Resources Assessment S urvey (CRAS)

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