Levy County

During the week of Jan. 8, 1923 the town of Rosewood was razed to the ground in an act of racial violence so severe it prompted Florida to pass an act of reparations. Now, descendants of the victims are marking the 100th anniversary of Rosewood massacre with a weeklong commemoration.

The violence in Rosewood mirrored some of America's infamy of racial violence in the years after World War I. In Florida, the Black communities in Ocoee and Rosewood were stained by historic violence in 1920 and 1923, respectively.

This area of Levy County is one of the most productive fossil sites in the Southeast. Over 70,000 specimens have been collected by the Florida Museum of Natural History and volunteers.