St. Lucie County Regional History Center — Attraction in Fort Pierce

This place was absolutely lovely! I love museums and especially enjoy learning about history; so this was a real joy for me! 10/10 I loved visiting here because I learned so much! (Down below is a sort of lengthy description of my experience at this place)

-At first I thought it was going to a cutesy little building with some artifacts and information but then a very nice woman (Nancy I think was her name, I don't quite remember so forgive me!) Showed my sister and I out of this small cute house into another building, which by first glance, was FULL of things!

She gave us a quick introduction about the museum and about the indigenous people who lived on this land before us, and was completely unbiased about their history and showed us some more stuff (I don't want to spoil much since you definitely should experience it for yourself but there's a small room with an incredible model of a ship), and then let us be and left us to explore the museum.

Although it's a relatively small museum it had so much information and facts that by the end of it my head was bursting at the seems with what I had learned!

They've collected so many antique's and had interesting (honestly a little frightening) human mannequins/models that represented different people and the times they were living in.

This whole place felt like a strange time capsule of what was the entire history of Port St. Lucie, and it has a wide variety of collections too! It's like a little mix of everything in this museum, some artworks, antiques, stories and legends, and so much more I don't even think it's possible for me to list it all accurately!

Truthfully I seriously enjoyed my visit and I cannot stress enough how misleading that cute yellow building is. It's like a cute little yellow house, and then behind it is a behemoth of knowledge, or well, almost like a maze, except you're guided through arrows. (Perhaps the opposite of a corn maze? 🤔).

If you like learning and enjoy museums then you've gotta check...

The St. Lucie County Regional History Center is located just across the bridge from Ft. Pierce on the north side of Seaway Drive. There is a small admission fee which also includes entry into the aquarium. The museum is one of the few places where you can get a feel for what life was like for the early Florida settler in the area. The county was primarily agriculture with citrus, pineapples, and cattle providing jobs and treasure for decades. If you are lucky, Mr. Gardner will be around to give you a tour of the home he grew up in which was relocated to the site from Ft. Pierce. There are pictures showing it crossing the bridge! My favorite exhibit is just inside the museum and shows the shipwrecks that gave rise to the "Treasure Coast"; in fact, a collection of gold coins was found in six feet of water as recently as last year and is valued at over $1million! If that doesn't give you an incentive to beach walk and swim, I don't know what will! I recommend giving the museum a visit for an afternoon: you...

After visiting the small aquarium which was neat, but nothing special we were about to leave.

Thank goodness we stuck around and paid the extra few dollars to go to the museum as well.

There are multiple rooms and areas with so much history ranging from the Spanish visits to Florida to the Native Floridians to the early Fort Pierce and the growth of the area.

It was really something special I feel like I would love to go again. At the beginning of the tour you are given an audio listening device that gives you information on each area that you are in at the time.

The staff from the historical society who volunteer there have a wealth of knowledge and are very friendly and accommodating. You...