The Panton, Leslie Papers: A Letter Of Edwin Gairdner To William Panton, 1798,
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,
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,
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),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
2020
University of Central Florida
The Panton, Leslie Papers, William Panton
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Letters From East Florida,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
2020
University of Central Florida
The Florida Historical Society: Society Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Panton, Leslie Papers,
2020
University of Central Florida
The Panton, Leslie Papers, William Panton
Florida Historical Quarterly
These letters are in continuation of the series of surviving records of Panton, Leslie & Co. the publication of which has been continuous in the Quarterly. They are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade who has transcribed them.
Letters Of William Cullen Bryant From Florida,
2020
University of Central Florida
Letters Of William Cullen Bryant From Florida, Charles I. Glicksberg
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1843; on the invitation of William Gilmore Sims, Bryant had taken a journey to the South. He visited Richmond, watched the sale of tobacco, and inspected a typical tobacco factory. Later, while enjoying the ‘hospitality of some planters in the Barnwell district of South Carolina, he had the good ” fortune of witnessing a corn shucking and attending a racoon hunt. But of far greater interest to him was the life of the negro observed at first hand. He listened to negro ballads and the lively music of the banjo and heard, perhaps for the first time, the hearty, …
Edmund Kirby Smith’S Boyhood In Florida,
2020
University of Central Florida
Edmund Kirby Smith’S Boyhood In Florida, Joseph B. James
Florida Historical Quarterly
Edmund Kirby Smith, who became one of the few full generals of the Confederate Army during the War Between the States, was born in St. Augustine, May 16, 1824. He was the second of Judge Joseph Lee Smith, who had left Connecticut in 1823 to become one of the two judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Florida. President Monroe had appointed Judge Smith to that post in the new territorial government that was then being set up by the United States after the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1821.
The Transfer Of Fort San Marcos And East Florida To The United States,
2020
University of Central Florida
The Transfer Of Fort San Marcos And East Florida To The United States, Rogers W. Young
Florida Historical Quarterly
Spanish Florida, comprising the provinces of East and West Florida, was ceded to the United States under the provisions of the “Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty,” of February 22, 1819. The treaty was signed in Washington by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and Louis de Onis, the Spanish Minister to the United States. Ratifications of the treaty were delayed, but on October 24, 1820, Ferdinand VII of Spain affixed his ratification and confirmation, while acceptance on the part of the United States Senate followed on February 19, Three …
