Plant's Lieutenants,
2021
University of Central Florida
Plant's Lieutenants, Dudley S. Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Henry Bradley Plant, native of Connecticut and owner of the Southern Express Company, successfully developed a rail network from the Georgia line to Charlotte Harbor. One of his lines was the first to reach the small, backwater village of Tampa where he built the lavish Tampa Bay Hotel in 1891. He also bought or constructed hotels in Port Tampa, Beleair, Punta Gorda, Ocala, Kissimmee, and Winter Park. He established a steamship line to Havana, Cuba, with stops at various ports along the West coast of Florida and at Key West, and his riverboats operated on the St. Johns, the Apalachicola, …
Caloosahatchee Massacre: Its Significance In The Second Seminole War,
2021
University of Central Florida
Caloosahatchee Massacre: Its Significance In The Second Seminole War, George R. Adams
Florida Historical Quarterly
Recent scholarship has put the Second Seminole War in its proper place as one of the most dramatic episodes in the period of Indian removal. The war was the longest, most expensive and most exhausting Indian conflict of the era. Hostilities lasted from 1835 to 1842, and cost an estimated $40,000,000 while over 1,400 regular army troops and an indeterminable number of militiamen, civilians, and Indians lost their lives in the swamps and wilderness of Florida. Guerrilla tactics, atrocities, almost continual negotiation, generally undistinguished military activity, frequent change of command, and conflict between civilian and military authorities characterized the struggle.
Van Brunt's Store, Iamonia, Florida, 1902-1911,
2021
University of Central Florida
Van Brunt's Store, Iamonia, Florida, 1902-1911, Clifton L. Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Not until just before World War II did Leon become an urban county. Tallahassee always had been the only real town in the county, and for more than a century it had been a fairly small community. The 1940 census showed that for the first time more than half the county’s population, 16,240 of the 31,646 persons, lived in Tallahassee. The city’s growth since World War II has turned Leon into one of Florida’s most urban counties. Before that time it shared with its four neighboring counties-Jackson, Gadsden, Jefferson, and Madison-the characteristics of being rural, agricultural, and, for the most …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 48, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Book Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Brief notes of other books
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Sanchez House, historical markers, local historical societies,
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Brooks, From Saddlebags to Satellites: A History of Florida Methodism, by Walter B. Posey; Brown, Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans, by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; Gold, Borderland Empires in Transition: Triple-Nation Transfer of Florida, by John J. TePaske; Will, Swamp to Sugar Bowl: Pioneer Days in Belle Glade, by Jeanne Bellamy; Richards, Florida’s Hibiscus City: Vero Beach, by Ernest F. Lyons; Woodward, Pocahontas, by Robert R. Rea; Rogers, Jr., Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys, by Ernest M. Lander, Jr.; Royall (ed. by Griffith), Letters …
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of publications and research by historians around Florida
Florida Women Get The Vote,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Women Get The Vote, Kenneth R. Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida women worked long and hard to secure the right to vote. In 1912 Mrs. Roselle Cooley, Miss Frances Anderson, and a few other energetic women in Jacksonville organized the Florida Equal Franchise League. The idea spread to other communities, and in 1913 a small group of suffragists from all parts of the state, led by Dr. Mary Safford, met at Orlando and organized the Florida Equal Suffrage Association. This organization carried on the main fight for woman suffrage in Florida. It was composed of twenty-eight local leagues, five of which were men’s leagues. They were organized between June 1912 …
"A Tale To Tell From Paradise Itself", George Bancroft's Letters From Florida, March 1855,
2021
University of Central Florida
"A Tale To Tell From Paradise Itself", George Bancroft's Letters From Florida, March 1855, Patricia Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although the development of Florida as a resort for wealthy northern vacationers saw a product of the post-Civil War era, the decade preceding the war was the beginning of a modest influx of travelers, particularly to the northeast region which bordered on the St. Johns River and its tributaries. The subtropical climate, which proved to have a beneficial effect on those suffering mainly with chronic respiratory and bronchial ailments, lured the invalid, while the variety of bird and animal life attracted the hunters. In addition, there were the inveterate travelers-those disposed to adventure or goaded by curiosity as to customs …
Deprivation, Disaffection, And Desertion In Confederate Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Deprivation, Disaffection, And Desertion In Confederate Florida, John F. Reiger
Florida Historical Quarterly
The federal blockade, departure of most breadwinners for the military, removal of large quantities of food, clothing, and supplies for troops on every southern battlefront, disregard of desperate appeals of Confederate and state officials urging the planting of food rather than money crops, and great speculation, caused widespread suffering for most Florida families during the Civil War.
The Florida Treaty And The Gallatin-Vives Misunderstanding,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Florida Treaty And The Gallatin-Vives Misunderstanding, Louis R. Bisceglia
Florida Historical Quarterly
From the time it was announced by His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII in August 1820, that he was sending a minister plenipotentiary to the United States to conduct further negotiations with President Monroe, to the moment General Francisco Vives disembarked in New York on April 7, 1820, from the packet ship James Monroe, an aura of mystery had enveloped Washington as to the disposition of the Spanish government toward the Florida treaty. For during this time there had been virtually no official communiques exchanged between the two governments. John Forsyth, the American minister in Spain, was for all intents and …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 48, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
The Annual Meeting, May 9-10, 1969,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Annual Meeting, May 9-10, 1969, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, activities and events,
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Dinkins, Dunnellon-Boomtown of the 1890’s: The Story of Rainbow Springs and Dunnellon, by Baynard Kendrick; Lyons, My Florida, by Pat Parks; Murphy, The Frank Murphy Story, by John Frasca; Severein, Explorers of the Mississippi, by Jack D. L. Holmes; Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Paul H. Smith; Kammen, A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat; Prucha, The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; McConnell, Negro Troops of Antebellum Louisiana: A History of the Battalion of …
St. Augustine, 1784: Decadence And Repairs,
2021
University of Central Florida
St. Augustine, 1784: Decadence And Repairs, John D. Ware
Florida Historical Quarterly
Among the first of many duties of the Spanish officials upon their return to St. Augustine after an absence of twenty years was to examine and perform necessary repairs to the public buildings. Many of these had fallen into disrepair during the latter years of the British tenure.
Captain Young's Sketch Map, 1818,
2021
University of Central Florida
Captain Young's Sketch Map, 1818, Alan K. Craig
Florida Historical Quarterly
Recently a manuscript map entitled “Sketch of the Indian and Negro Towns on the Suwaney River” was found during a search of the National Archives and Records Service documents section by A. P. Muntz, chief of the cartographic branch. This map (RG77:L 247-94) is included in a selection of signed and dated maps filed in the records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers pertaining to military activities in northern Florida in the vicinity of the Suwannee River. Almost all are dated 1839, and were rendered by officers of the “topographical engineers” contingent assigned to military forces commanded by …
Lizzie Brown's Tallahassee,
2021
University of Central Florida
Lizzie Brown's Tallahassee, Bertram H. Groene
Florida Historical Quarterly
Francis Elizabeth Brown, born in 1818, was the oldest daughter of Thomas Brown, governor of Florida from 1849 to 1853. In the winter of 1827-1828 her father, a dispirited Virginia planter, organized a caravan to move his family from his Rappahannock River farm to Leon County, Florida, some 800 miles away. Brown packed ten year old Lizzie, as Francis Elizabeth was affectionately known, her mother, her brother Jackson, and her three sisters, Mary, Mag, and Ginnie, into the family carriage. Followed by twenty planter friends and his 140 slaves, Brown led the party for two months through North and South …
Spanish Treaties With West Florida Indians 1784-1802,
2021
University of Central Florida
Spanish Treaties With West Florida Indians 1784-1802, Jack D. L. Holmes
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Bernardo de Galvez raised the lion-and-castle banner over Pensacola in 1781, British rule in West Florida came to a close and the Gulf of Mexico was again a Spanish sea. Keeping it thus was another matter, however, for the young and restless nation to the north was expansionist minded. One of the keys to Spanish defense of Louisiana and West Florida was the presence of 20,000 Indians whose friendship and support would determine who would control the area. Spanish governors and commandants signed various treaties with these Indians between 1784 and 1802. Basically, there were two types of treaties: …
