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A house in St. Augustine that was firebombed and shot at during a key time in the civil rights movement has successfully moved to a new location.
The historic Canright house traveled nearly 11 miles from Butler Beach, down A1A, over a bridge, past shopping plazas to its new home, Collier-Blocker-Puryear Park.
The relocation for the 'Canright' house where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. almost stayed, begins at 9 a.m. Thursday; it will be moved to a park in West Augustine.
Meeting Feb. 8 to discuss moving civil rights home in Butler Beach St. Johns County
Segregationists – thinking Dr. Martin Luther King was staying at this Crescent Beach home – tried to set it on fire and riddled it with bullets in 1964.