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Juan Ponce de León’s name is closely tied to Florida, yet the historical record is often clouded by legend. This evergreen explainer examines his documented role in early Spa...
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The oldest continuously recognized places in Florida are Indigenous settlements established thousands of years ago, alongside early Spanish colonial sites from the 1500s. What q...
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St. Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. It is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the pres...
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) was a Spanish sea captain, conquistador, and colonial administrator, best known as the founder of St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. Born i...
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Convict leasing was a state-run system in which private individuals or corporations paid the state to employ incarcerated people as laborers, primarily in railroad construction,...
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The question of Miami and the Revolutionary War is best understood as an evergreen profile of a region whose colonial story diverges from the original 13 colonies. South Florida...
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