2017 Events

Heath fair and Dinner in Armstrong -Monday after the third Sunday . (Each Month)

January 17 , February 20 , March 20, April 17 , May 22, June 19 , July 17 , August 21 

September 18 , October 16 ,  November 20 , December 18  

Thanks for supporting us

Gulah Geechee Spring Tour 

March 18-24

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Bike Tours in Armstrong

• March 28- Bike Florida  Tour in Armstrong 10am-2pm
• April 29- North Florida Bike Tour coming though Armstrong

BIKE FLORIDA – Tours With a Purpose

Bike Florida Tours Overview

Touring with a Purpose

When you join us on a Bike Florida tour you not only get a great tour experience but you are supporting our efforts to improve cycling. Profits from our tours are used to fund our Mini Grants which help fund community bike projects, and our bike education programs bring a proven cycling curriculum to elementary schools throughout the state.

Our Spring Tour attracts up to 800 riders and focuses on delivering a great tour experience at a budget friendly price.  Our Boutique tours are limited to 20 riders and focus on more custom touring experience with more personalized support and comfort.  Click here to read more about our tour types

Armstrong Bike Ride 12/7/13

Up coming Bike Florida Tours

The 2014 Spring Tour

Our Flagship tour! 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of Bike Florida’s annual Spring Tour.  A great way to explore Florida our Spring Tour visits a different part of the state each year.  If you have never experience a week of riding with 800 ‘close friends’ you are missing out!
BF20: The Magical History Tour - March 22-28, 2014

A Few Hundred Strong, African-American Community Aims to Become Florida’s Next Trail Town – RTC TrailBlog – Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

A Few Hundred Strong, African-American Community Aims to Become Florida’s Next Trail Town
There is an experience that is unique to the people driving cars along State Road 207 in Florida.
Only they can make the sharp, abrupt drop into Armstrong – a settlement where moms walk babies and folks chat along the narrow town road that abruptly ends in woods. From the high-speed, four-lane highway to the serene woods the drivers go …plop! It’s a strange juxtaposition.
Riders and walkers on the Palatka-to-St. Augustine State Trail enter and leave through these same woods. But trails code users for different expectations, and the transition we experience as we make our way to these woods is likely to be different, too.
Arriving in Armstrong, we’ve already stopped at the historical sign that explains how, 130 years ago, the trail was the rail corridor for tapping the region’s farmlands. Fresh produce supplied the tables of the opulent hotels that revived ancient St. Augustine. Gullahs and Geechees, West Africans enslaved on island plantations in the south in the 1700s, came from South Carolina to work the fields. Some 300 to 400 of their descendants call Armstrong home today.
“I know why you like Armstrong,” Jasmin Hines, a local, says to me.
It is Bike Florida’s November 2013 tour, and we are standing in a recreational field serving as an official stop, complete with vendors and a blues band thinly covering Allman Brothers from under a shed.
“It’s the same as why we like it. We’re all family here.”
Reviewing that tour, Ron Cunningham of Bike Florida later wrote, “I was a bit worried that, being the last day of our ride, some of our cyclists would be tempted to skip Armstrong and continue right on to St. Augustine. As it turned out, they were taken by how Armstrong residents welcomed us with open arms. The brunch was easily one of the high points of our seven-day ride.”
That reception was anything but spontaneous.
The SEA Community – Spuds, Elkton, and Armstrong – pursued Cunningham for months to make sure that brunch in Armstrong would be on the tour.
The brunch would take place almost a year after locals had celebrated the community’s 100th anniversary together with the opening of the Palatka-to-St. Augustine Trail. That day, they hosted some 200 riders, including the director of Florida’s parks and recreation office and elected officials from the trail’s endpoint cities.
The trail today is paved and off-road for 8.5 miles. It’s part of the 260-mile St. Johns River-to-Sea Loop, which is almost half completed. On the trail are signs of the East Coast Greenway, posted last year when the East Coast Greenway Alliance adopted the trail as part of its 3,000-mile Maine to Florida route.
“We started thinking how Armstrong could achieve some economic development by catering to cyclists along the trail,” says Malinda Peeples, Executive Director of the SEA Community, adding, “People at the dedication sure had a good time.”
Now a year later, the North Florida Bicycle Club schedules Armstrong food stops for its weekend rides from St. Augustine. In May of this year, new SunRail commuter trains will connect Orlando with the Loop where they meet at the far southwest turn in DeBary. Trains will carry bikes for free. Peeples is working to make sure Armstrong is ready when cyclists come touring the Loop on their own, and Bike Florida also plans to develop train-trail tours, as well.
Cyclists will soon find a paved path into the park, and a trailhead. Peeples plans to use income from cyclists who stop by to help match grants that will provide a welcome center with a café. There’s talk of a small grocery store, a community museum and of getting a more frequent schedule for a mobile health clinic. In time, perhaps some overnight rooms.
Everything gets tested in late winter when Bike Florida will run its annual mass ride for about 1,000 people along a northern portion of the Loop. That throng will stop in Armstrong during its last morning.
How does Armstrong plan to host numbers maybe three times its population?
Peeples laughs. She rattles off the SEA Community’s relationship with the county’s helpful office of housing and community services and the county parks and recreation department. The St. Johns County Fairgrounds sit just northeast on State Road 207, if needed.
“But we want our visitors to experience Armstrong itself,” she adds.
“Our church has been here since the late 1800s. You know about black churches and farming families. We’re used to cooking big meals. Most of the year, we feed migrants. Not that many in the Armstrong camp, but we sure know where the veggies are for a lot more.”
Photos courtesy of East Coast Greenway Alliance

Unveiling Signs12/7/13

Past Events

5th Annual SEA Rails to Trails Festival ( 2016)

Thank you for supporting us

Applications and Registration ( Forms and Links)

 2016 Campers Application 1 (2) ( Campers Application)

2016 Vendor Registration (3) ( Vendors Registration)

Sponsor Letter 2016 w EIN 08172016 – for merge pdf (Sponsor Letter)

 https://www.signmeup.com/site/reg/register.aspx?fid=1Z2VGH7 ( Bike Ride Registration and Donation Link)

Festival information (2015)

Campers Registration ,Vendors registration , and more

2015 Campers Application 1 for webpage -(Campers application)

Sponsor Letter 2015 -( Sponsor Letter)

Vendor Registration (1)-( Vendors Registration)

https://raceroster.com/events/2017/13956/sea-rails-to-trails-festival-bike-ride

 Click on the link below to register for our December 6th Rails to Trails Bike ride : 

 Click on the link bellow to open up the Digital Magazine to read more about the SEA Community Help Resorce Center

——–>Gullah Geechee Publication Fall 2015 PQ V2 (6) <——–

The 4th Annual SEA Rails to Trails Festival was deticated to Mrs. Lilian N. Bryson one of the Founders.

Back to School 2014-2015

Gullah Geechee Youth Bike Tour Stops In Armstrong

Check out the flipagram We  made at:

http://flipagram.com/f/ZZxu7LHxH1

Gullah Geechee 1

Click link below to Read about: Gullah Geechee cultural Heritage Corridor Commission

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   Chilling at the pool   

Here is a little video we put together of us at the pool. ( Click on the link to see video )

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 Ice Cream Social Party

We would like to thank Celebration Lutheran for the ice cream party here is a little video clip we put together : click on the link below  to see the little video.

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A little video clip  of Tour De Forts Classic

Armstrong Rails to Trails (short video Clip on what we do and one of our bike rides).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_KJGCH1Fk&sns=em

Go Follow us on Facebook at :              

https://www.facebook.com/pages/SEA-Community-Center/444666165614229?ref=hl   

To see our other post

ST. Johns Velo Fest ride every 1st Saturday starting in Armsrtong Park 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Johns-Velo/184191168278762?fref=nf

 NorthFloridaBicycleClub  

 Every 3rd  Sat. of the month a 37 miles ride start at Armstrong Park 8 am come and join us.    Please come out one and all. Armstrong Trail-Cracker Swamp Road A/B/C/S 17-37 miles

August 15 at 1p.m join us in the parade line up at 1p.m moccasin creek lane and Armstrong road.

Wrigley Ride, a Memorial Ride for Bryan B Wrigley

February 21, 2015, Sykes and Cooper Farm

www.wrigleyride.org

Our Events, please see drop down menu for more info or to be redirected to one of our specific sites.

 Please come Monday after the 3rd Sunday of each month at 6 pm- 8 pm

 SEA Community Meeting(The last Tuesday, in every month  @ 9:30am

We will be having our SEA Community meeting the last Tuesday of each month at  9:30 am

Location : 6408 Armstrong Rd Elkton Fl.

Time : 9:30 am

CONTACTnumber 806-3939

Reason: Planning for the up coming events ( Volunteers and help is needed )

Our December 3rd Annual Rails to Trails Festival 2014

 Campers and bikers

 County Cooking

Entertainment

People at the festival

Fruits and vegetable  Stand

 Come one come all to our December 2014 Rails to Trails Festival

Here are some of the singers that will be coming out  December

Willie Green ,Amy Alysia ,Saint Jax Band , and Good Puppy

Sponsor Page Letter – 2013 HE

Vendor Registration

Thank you Bike Florida-11/15/14

THANK YOU bike Florida for all of the fun we had with you all .  We are glad you guys came out and ate breakfast with us.

 Summer lunch program at the pool on Wednesdays 2014  

Armstrong_Back_to_School_Bash_Flyer_August 11, 2014 (1)

Summer lunch program  art and craft 2014

A Few Hundred Strong,

African-American Community Aims to Become Florida’s Next Trail Town – RTC TrailBlog – Rails-to-Trails Conservanc (see event) 

Christmas Dinner and Health Fair 2013. Fruit Cove Baptist Church Thanks!

SEA’S 2ND ANNUAL RAILS TO TRAILS FESTIVAL 12/7/13

Unveiling Signs on the Trail 12/7/13 (see event)

Commemorates US Military Veterans, Armstrong Cemetery 12/7/13

Bike Florida Spring Tour will be stopping in Armstrong on there tour. See (Event) March 28, 2014 at 10 am  to 2 pm. Come and join us.

JOIN US IN ARMSTRONG ON MARCH 28th FROM 9:00 AM UNTIL 2:00 PM

AT ARMSTRONG PARK AT 4950 HARVEY AVENUE ,ELKTON, FLORIDA 32033

FOR COUNTRY COOKING.  Dinners $10 DELIVER 20 OR MORE

DRINKS – KARAOKE, GAMES AND MORE

SEA’S 3rd Annual Fails to Trails Festival

Dear Vendor,

SEA’s 3rd ANNUAL RAILS TO TRAILS FESTIVAL
Armstrong’s festival is rapidly approaching and we are trying to get a head start on lining up our vendors and exhibitors who wish to participate this year.
Please complete and sign the registration form below and return it to the above address with your check or money order, payable to SEA Community Help Resource Center, Inc.

Registration is now open, your early registration will ensure that you have a spot in this year’s event. For questions or more information, please call Malinda Peeples at (904) 806-3939, or Kathryn Taylor at (904) 824-5314, or visit us on FaceBook at “sea community center”.

We look forward to your participation.
Malinda Peeples and Staff,
SEA (Spuds, Elkton, Armstrong)
Help Resource Center, Inc.