The Fort Lauderdale Historical Society aims to bring you closer to the city’s legends of the past. Follow the trails of national and economic development or simply get a glimpse of Broward County’s oldest hotel and estates in the historic district.

The Utah Olympic Park hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games as a prime competition venue. It held Nordic jumping, bobsled, luge, and skeleton. Now there are nearly 400 acres of sporting facilities and visitor areas that can accommodate over 300,000 people. Watch athletes in training, explore the Alf Engen Ski History Museum and the 2002 Eccles Winter Olympic Museum. There are daily guided tours of the Olympic competition sites, public bobsled rides, starting in December, and chair lifts to the K120 Ski Jump’s summit.

Built in 1901 by Frank Stranahan, Fort Lauderdale's founding father, as a trading post and converted into a residence for the Stranahans in 1906, the Stranahan House is Ft. Lauderdale’s oldest standing structure and a perfect example of 'Florida Frontier' architecture. In its many incarnations, this building has been a post office, general store, town hall and today, is a small museum that teaches about South Florida Pioneer life.

Take a self-guided tour into Arizona’s rich Native past. As the epicenter of Southwestern prehistoric cultures, the overall Rim Country served as home to probably 1,000 different sites. The Shoofly ruins themselves were occupied between 1000 and 1250 A.D. There were once 79 structures with a large building at its center that housed 26 rooms averaging 37.4 sq. meters each. Visiting the Ruins brings with it a newfound appreciation for Arizona’s telling history.