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Public Education In Spanish St. Augustine, Joseph B. Lockey 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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 2020 University of Central Florida

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.


The Panton, Leslie Papers, William Panton 2020 University of Central Florida

The Panton, Leslie Papers, William Panton

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Letters From East Florida, Dorothy Dodd 2020 University of Central Florida

Letters From East Florida, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before the outbreak of the Seminole Indian War in 1835 the northern counties of East Florida were increasing in population at a faster rate than Middle and West Florida. Although the country was but sparsely settled there were a number of flourishing plantations, but these were laid waste by the Indians during the next seven years and immigration into that section almost entirely ceased. On the termination of the war in 1842, Congress passed a temporary free homestead act to encourage settlers to come into the section that had been the seat of the war in the hope that settlement …


Some Experiences Of Bishop Young, Edgar Legare Pennington 2020 University of Central Florida

Some Experiences Of Bishop Young, Edgar Legare Pennington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The entwining network or railroads and inproved highways has practically obliterated all recollection of the handicaps of travel in Florida a few decades ago. It is hard to realize that the journey made in a few hours today required days - even weeks - in the years which followed the War Between the STates. So accustomed are we to thinking of our centres of population as bustling, wide-awake cities that we seldom picture them as isolated and crude communities or wretched little fishing-towns. Yet such conditions prevailed; and the second Episcopal Bishop of FLorida, the Right REverend John Freeman Young, …


The Fortifications At San Marcos De Apalache, Mark F. Boyd 2020 University of Central Florida

The Fortifications At San Marcos De Apalache, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The region of Apalache and of its bay on the Gulf coast seem to have been ignored by the Spaniards following the departure of De Soto from this vicinity after overwintering here in 1539-40. Certainly we are not aware of its further mention in available records until the arrival of the Christianizing Franciscan fathers in 1633, who probably, as did De Soto, came overland,, but in the latter instance from St. Augustine.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2020 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 15, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Index To Volumes Vii - Xiv, Florida Historical Society Quarterly, F. W. Hoskins 2020 University of Central Florida

Index To Volumes Vii - Xiv, Florida Historical Society Quarterly, F. W. Hoskins

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society: Society Notes, Florida Historical Society 2020 University of Central Florida

The Florida Historical Society: Society Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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