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Notes, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


By-Laws Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

By-Laws Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 35th annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society convened at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, January 26, 1937, at ten o’clock in the forenoon.


The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Historic Landmarks Of My County, John Pikula Dec 2020

The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Historic Landmarks Of My County, John Pikula

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of the many landmarks of the Halifax country, one of which probably the least is known is the old Bulow Plantation, the remains of which are found near the old King’s Road approximately eleven miles north of the city of Ormond. Owing to the extreme difficulty in gaining access to the place, it is but seldom frequented and consequently little known. But this does not signify its lack of historical value. On the contrary, it is quite the opposite. For it was not only the most extensive plantation ever to exist in the Halifax country, but it also was occupied …


The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Braden Castle, Thelma Gray Dec 2020

The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Braden Castle, Thelma Gray

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost a century has passed since a wagon train of brave pioneers broke the stillness of the Florida wilds. Included in this caravan was a well-known Virginian, Dr. Joseph Braden, who, with his family, was seeking a location suitable for permanent settlement.


The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Governor Gayoso To William Panton, 1797, Manuel Gayoso De Lemos Dec 2020

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Governor Gayoso To William Panton, 1797, Manuel Gayoso De Lemos

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Defences Of The Floridas: Report Of Captain James Gadsden, Aide-De-Camp To General Andrew Jackson, James Gadsden Dec 2020

The Defences Of The Floridas: Report Of Captain James Gadsden, Aide-De-Camp To General Andrew Jackson, James Gadsden

Florida Historical Quarterly

This report was secured by Dr. Mark F. Boyd, whom readers of the Quarterly know well, from the original in the files of the Intelligence Division, Engineers Corps, War Dept. Washington. In an early issue of the Quarterly Dr. Boyd will give us a paper on the so-called Negro Fort which will be an introduction to a series of letters written near the site of the fort by Edmund Doyle, trader and representative of John Forbes and Company (successors to Panton, Leslie and Company) to Forbes, and James and John Innerarity, members of that firm (1808-1817).


Early Orange Culture In Florida And The Epocal Cold Of 1835, T. Frederick Davis Dec 2020

Early Orange Culture In Florida And The Epocal Cold Of 1835, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of Ponce de Leon’s ambitions was to grow fruit in Florida that His Majesty, the Emperor Charles V of Spain, might be served therewith, and when he embarked upon his voyage to colonize Florida he carried seeds of all kinds for planting. Probably the orange was included and possibly on the shore of Charlotte Harbor the first orange tree in Florida grew in 1521; or perhaps Narvaez or DeSoto included oranges in his commissariat and left seed here to germinate into trees? These are interesting thoughts; but we turn from speculation to historical record for the following account


The Union Bank Of Tallahassee: An Experiment In Territorial Finance, Kathryn T. Abbey Dec 2020

The Union Bank Of Tallahassee: An Experiment In Territorial Finance, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

In view of the recent financial confusion in the United States, similar difficulties of the Florida of a century ago assume more than a passing interest. The problem of self development has always been pressing for Florida; since the days of the purchase from Spain exaggerated claims of economic opportunity have lured the investor sometimes to sound wealth and sometimes, alas, to the reverse. The first Florida boom was launched in 1821 when the United States government set itself the task of raising the five million dollar purchase price from the sale of the lands just acquired. These internal improvement …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 15, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Notice Of Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notice Of Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In accordance with the revised charter adopted in annual meeting on November 17, the next annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held on January 26, 1937.


Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The President's Address And Report, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

The President's Address And Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 34th Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society was held in the auditorium of the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at Gainesville, Florida, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, on Tuesday, November 17th, 1936.


The Panton, Leslie Papers: Mucklesaopay, The Singer (Indian Chief) To William Panton, Mucklesaopay (The Singer) Dec 2020

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Mucklesaopay, The Singer (Indian Chief) To William Panton, Mucklesaopay (The Singer)

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Two Uncollected Letters Of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson Dec 2020

Two Uncollected Letters Of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The above letter has been presented to The Florida Historical Society by Miss Gertrude N. L’Engle, a grand daughter of Thomas Baltzell, law partner of Joseph M. White to whom it was written.


Public Education In Spanish St. Augustine, Joseph B. Lockey Dec 2020

Public Education In Spanish St. Augustine, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

A school for white children existed in St. Augustine as early as 1606. Whether it continued to function during the rest of this first period of Spanish dominion is a question that cannot now be answered. But if it did survive, it must have come to a close on the cession of the province to the British in 1763; for the change of sovereignty was followed by a general abandonment of the territory by the Spanish inhabitants. When the Spanish came back twenty years later the British in turn departed. With the restoration of sovereignty went the restoration of the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 15, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


To The Members, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

To The Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The annual meeting of The Florida Historical Society, for the election of officers and other business, will be held at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, on Tuesday, November 17, at eleven o’clock A. M. All members are urged to attend.


Notes, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Panton, Leslie Papers: A Letter Of Edwin Gairdner To William Panton, 1798, Edwin Gairdner Dec 2020

The Panton, Leslie Papers: A Letter Of Edwin Gairdner To William Panton, 1798, Edwin Gairdner

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Signey Lanier In Florida, Lena E. Jackson Dec 2020

Signey Lanier In Florida, Lena E. Jackson

Florida Historical Quarterly

This year is the sixtieth anniversary of a sojourn in Tampa by a noted figure in the development of American literary and musical history; for Sidney Lanier, who was later to earn a high place among the poets of America, was for three months a visitor in Tampa, where several of his poems were written and others planned.


The Contention Over The Superintendencia Of The Floridas, D. C. Corbitt Dec 2020

The Contention Over The Superintendencia Of The Floridas, D. C. Corbitt

Florida Historical Quarterly

Louisiana was granted the privilege of trading with France for a period of ten years by a royal cedula of January 22, 1782. The importance of this cedula in the history of Louisiana and in the commercial history of the Spanish Empire can scarcely be overestimated. We are interested here, however, in a side issue which it provoked.


Florida University (1883), C. L. Crow Dec 2020

Florida University (1883), C. L. Crow

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most ambitious and most visionary attempt ever made to establish in Florida an institution of higher learning was probably that of the founders, or founder, of Florida University. The plan of organization of the proposed school, altho not successfully carried out, was nevertheless worthy of some respect, for Dr. Kost, its main proponent, had perhaps a vision similar in part to that which afterward inspired Mr. Buckman.


A Letter Of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers, V. Chamberlain Dec 2020

A Letter Of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers, V. Chamberlain

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Engagements At St. Johns Bluff St. Johns River, September-October, 1862, T. Frederick Davis Dec 2020

Engagements At St. Johns Bluff St. Johns River, September-October, 1862, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jacksonville was first occupied by Federal troops March 12, 1862, for the purpose of giving aid and comfort to the Union sympathizers of the region. The town was evacuated in less than a month, but a Federal blockade of the St. Johns River was maintained by gunboats of Admiral Du Pont’s South Atlantic squadron with their station at a steam sawmill called Mayport Mills, a settlement that grew into the present town of Mayport and from which the name Mayport is derived. The gunboats patrolled the river at will and frequently went up to Jacksonville and beyond to reconnoiter. To …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 15, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the death of Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, in Washington on June 17, the Florida Historical Society lost its oldest honorary member, Florida one of its foremost citizens, and the nation one of the few men (to serve twenty-seven years in its Senate.


Society Notes, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Society Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Following the district meetings of the Society, held at Tallahassee on January 10 and at Sanford on February 8, which were reported in the last issue of the Quarterly, a public meeting of the members of the First Congressional District was held at Mountain Lake Club, Lake Wales, on March 12. Senator Spessard L. Holland, director of the Society in that district, presided.