If you're looking for beach or natural-area access on Amelia Island, American Beach sits high on the list for anyone who's spent real time here.
A historic African-American beach community founded in 1935 by Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Florida's first Black millionaire, and the Afro-American Life Insurance Company. During segregation it was one of the few Southeast beaches accessible to Black families, drawing over 10,000 visitors a day at its peak. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Located in Amelia Island, it's within a short drive of most parts of Amelia Island.
The venue reads as Historic, Cultural Heritage, National Register, Beach based on its own positioning, which is a useful signal if you're trying to match it against what you're actually in the mood for.
For current hours, menu (or offerings), and anything else that changes season to season, the business's own site at https://www.nps.gov/timu/learn/historyculture/ambch_history.htm is the source to check; nothing on this page invents a detail that isn't on theirs.
For property owners along the coast, regular home watch visits catch the wear that salt air and beach proximity put on a house before it becomes expensive. The beach is the reason; the maintenance is the reality.