Steamboat Activity In Florida During The Second Seminole Indian War,
2021
University of Central Florida
Steamboat Activity In Florida During The Second Seminole Indian War, Edward A. Mueller
Florida Historical Quarterly
A significant stimulus to the development of steamboat activity in Florida was the Second Seminole Indian War (1835-1842). The war was a difficult one for the United States to wage. Transportation by water played a key role. The conflict involved a substantial number of steamboats. Because of a lack of roads, they served as logical and logistical answers to military needs. Army facilities located on or near navigable waters, like the St. Johns River and its tributaries, could be supplied by steamboats. With few exceptions steamboats were primarily used for military purposes and usually did not cater to civilians. However, …
Demographic Patterns And Changes In Mid-Seventeenth Century Timucua And Apalchee,
2021
University of Central Florida
Demographic Patterns And Changes In Mid-Seventeenth Century Timucua And Apalchee, John H. Hann
Florida Historical Quarterly
Surprisingly little is known about the village patterns of northern Florida’s natives prior to their missionization or about the settlement policy followed by the friars during the formation of the Florida mission chains. This is particularly true for the inland missions of Potano, Utina, Ustaca, and Apalachee. There is no evidence that the Florida Franciscans followed the “reduction" approach of their Jesuit contemporaries in the South American mission provinces of Guaira, Itatin, Tape and Paraguay, whose people had a material culture roughly similar to that of North Florida’s missionized tribes. Thus, it is generally assumed that the friars adapted their …
"The Nest Of Vile Fanatics": William N. Sheats And The Orange Park School,
2021
University of Central Florida
"The Nest Of Vile Fanatics": William N. Sheats And The Orange Park School, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the Orange Park Normal and Industrial School opened October 7, 1891, probably none of the excited participants imagined that within three years the school would incur the wrath of Florida’s superintendent of public instruction and would result in the passage of a state law prohibiting teaching blacks and whites under the same roof. Rather, the school began with enthusiastic community support and the expectation that its influence would reach throughout upper Florida and lower Georgia. The Orange Park school was founded by the American Missionary Association of New York, the most significant benevolent society then engaged in educating blacks. …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 64, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1985 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
RACIAL CHANGE AND COMMUNITY CRISIS: ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, 1877-1980, by David R. Colburn, reviewed by Mary Frances Berry; SIX COLUMNS AND FORT NEW SMYRNA, by Charles W. Bockelman, reviewed by Thomas W. Taylor; FINEST KIND: A CELEBRATION OF A FLORIDA FISHING VILLAGE, by Ben Green, reviewed by Jesse Earle Bowden; SPEEDWAY TO SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY, by Seth H. Bramson, reviewed by Edward N. Akin; GIANT TRACKING: WILLIAM DUDLEY CHIPLEY AND OTHER GIANTS OF MEN, by Lillian D. Champion, reviewed by George F. Pearce; PERSPECTIVES ON GULF COAST PREHISTORY, edited by Dave D. Davis, reviewed …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Governor's Mansion Library, Awards, Announcements and Activities
Ready Cash On Easy Terms: Local Responses To The Depression In Lee County,
2021
University of Central Florida
Ready Cash On Easy Terms: Local Responses To The Depression In Lee County, R. Lyn Rainard
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the Great Depression spread to southwest Florida, it caught an unprepared population by surprise. In response, the people of Lee County united in an effort to use local public and private resources to alleviate want. Although moderately successful at first, community efforts alone could not surmount the hardship brought by the Depression. Only massive federal aid would accomplish that goal, bringing in its wake, however, other unforeseen results. New Deal programs did reduce economic trauma, but they also fundamentally altered attitudes about the causes of proverty and about the purpose of federal assistance. Ultimately, New Deal grants were used …
The Tony Tommie Letter, 1916: A Transitional Seminole Document,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Tony Tommie Letter, 1916: A Transitional Seminole Document, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
On October 4, 1916, a young Seminole boy named Tony Tommie wrote a letter to his friend Frank Stranahan, the trading post operator at Fort Lauderdale on the New River. Tony was sixteen years of age at the time, and had completed one year of instruction at the Fort Lauderdale elementary school. His brief note contained a plea for a $10.00 loan with which he could purchase a number of items, the most interesting of these being some “little alligator[s]” to be raised for re-sale to tourists. Unfortunately, there is no record of Stranahan’s response. However, given his long-standing friendship …
Development Of The Plan Of Pensacola During The Colonial Era, 1559-1821,
2021
University of Central Florida
Development Of The Plan Of Pensacola During The Colonial Era, 1559-1821, Robert B. Lloyd, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The plan of present-day Pensacola reflects the influences of such colonial powers as Spain, France, and Great Britain. While all shared a common debt to ancient Roman practices of city design, each culture had its own idea of city planning that developed from its own particular history. The imposition of these ideas on Pensacola, and the accommodations that each culture had to make for the preceding one, led to an interesting and unique plan.
Reid V. Barry: The Legal Battle Over The "Best Location" In Orlando,
2021
University of Central Florida
Reid V. Barry: The Legal Battle Over The "Best Location" In Orlando, Jane Quinn
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Supreme Court case, Robert R. Reid et al. v. Bishop Patrick Barry, cleared the cloud of title of the Roman Catholic Church to its downtown Orlando property. The final decree in Circuit Court, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, was announced in Orlando, on June 21, 1927. The judgment also established that in Florida a bishop is a corporation sole and that a deed of property to him and to his successors conveys ownership in the bishop’s corporate capacity. The bishop who was first involved in this lawsuit was John Moore of St. Augustine, who presided over the Catholic Diocese of …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 64, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Annual Meeting,
2021
University of Central Florida
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Eighty-third Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1985
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
GOVERNOR LEROY COLLINS OF FLORIDA: SPOKESMAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH, by Tom Wagy, reviewed by Manning J. Dauer; HE-COON: THE BOB SIKES STORY, edited by Bobbye Sikes Wicke, reviewed by D. R. “Billy” Matthews; THE MIAMI RIOT OF 1980: CROSSING THE BOUNDS, by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn, reviewed by Robert P. Ingalls; MODERN FLORIDA GOVERNMENT, by Anne E. Kelley, reviewed by Allen Morris; RAILS ‘NEATH THE PALMS, by Robert W. Mann, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY, by John R. Alden, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 8, CANDIDATE , …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida History Fair, Announcements and Activities
Black Reaction To Segregation And Discrimination In Post-Reconstruction,
2021
University of Central Florida
Black Reaction To Segregation And Discrimination In Post-Reconstruction, Wali R. Kharif
Florida Historical Quarterly
Equality of protection under the laws, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, implies that in the administration of criminal justice no person, by reason of his race or color, shall be subjected for the same offense to any greater or different punishment than that to which persons of another race or color are subjected. It also suggests that all citizens are entitled to protection of their civil rights and against discriminatory practices based upon race, color, creed, or religion. Unfortunately, in October 1883 when the United States Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Acts of …
A Swiss Settler In East Florida: A Letter Of Francis Philip Fatio,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Swiss Settler In East Florida: A Letter Of Francis Philip Fatio, William Scott Willis
Florida Historical Quarterly
A letter written by Francis Philip Fatio, who settled in East Florida in 1771 and remained there until his death in 1811, was recently discovered among some papers in a desk given to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Florida for use in the Ximenez-Fatio House in St. Augustine. Written by Fatio from New Switzerland, his plantation on the St. Johns River, to his wife in St. Augustine, the letter is dated October 18, 1800. It provides not only intimate glimpses of life on an East Florida plantation during the Second Spanish Period …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 64, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
A Great Stirring In The Land: Tallahassee And Leon County In 1860,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Great Stirring In The Land: Tallahassee And Leon County In 1860, William Warren Rogers
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the eve of the Civil War Tallahassee and Leon County were the center of Florida’s economic, political, and social life. Tallahasseans read about themselves in their two weekly, and decidedly political, newspapers: the strongly Democratic Floridian and Journal (circulation 1,500) and the Whiggish Florida Sentinel (circulation 1,000). As a national force the Whigs had disintegrated, but the Florida Sentinel retained the party’s principles. Local people kept further informed by talking among themselves. Conversations ranging from philosophical discussions to plain gossip were held on street corners, at stores, at churches, and at meetings of clubs and fraternal orders such as …
A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida, Dennis Golladay
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the morning of July 17, 1821, the inhabitants of Pensacola gathered around the town’s public square to witness the ceremony marking the transfer of the Floridas from Spanish to American control. Among the new American residents in the crowd was Cary Nicholas, a thirty-four-year-old transplanted Kentuckian who, like so many others, saw in the territory the prospect for a new start in a life too full of disappointments and failures.
