The 14-acre (57,000 m2) park contains a museum with examples of 19th-century life in the former town of St. Joseph, and features life-sized figures with audio presentations about the state's first Constitutional Convention.
[1] A group of territorial delegates met finally in St. Joseph, working from December 3, 1838, through January 11, 1839, to create the initial draft of Florida's constitution.
[2] Besides the historical displays of town life, the park's museum also has a reproduction of the original convention hall with audio-animated life-sized recreations of some of the delegates.
Visitors can see and hear facsimiles of Territorial Governors Robert Reid and William P. Duval, Senator David Y.
Levy and Attorney Thomas L. Baltzell debating and framing the early constitution of Florida.