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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 99, No. 3/4, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 99, No. 3/4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institutes (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Florida Historical Quarterly News; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


The History Of The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (Minwr): A Partnership Of Rockets And Wildlife, Charles Venuto 2024 University of Central Florida

The History Of The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (Minwr): A Partnership Of Rockets And Wildlife, Charles Venuto

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Christmas season is associated with the creation of many lists such as gifts, groceries and holiday cards. But there is another list citizen scientists assemble this time of year as well. The National Audubon Society (NAS) Christmas Bird Count (CBC), originally established to counter what had turned into an annual Christmas day bird slaughter, began in 1900 and look place at 25 different sites, primarily in the northeast United States although California and the Midwest were also represented.


Invading Eden: Exotic Pets And Invasive Species In South Florida, Andrew Pemberton 2024 University of Central Florida

Invading Eden: Exotic Pets And Invasive Species In South Florida, Andrew Pemberton

Florida Historical Quarterly

On July 8, 2019, South Floridians woke up to a headline describing the removal of a sixteen-foot-long Burmese python and fifty of its eggs from beneath a suburban home near the Everglades. This is a common spectacle in South Florida. Floridians, long accustomed to their scaly, cold-blooded co-habitants, have seen these types of headlines since the 1980s. With increasing frequency, non-indigenous species are entering the state's public eye. Perhaps more remarkable than these snakes' presence beneath Floridia homes is their welcomed presence in households across the country. However, this trend in pet-keeping poses the most risk to ecosystems in Florida, …


Seagrass-Roots Environmentalism: The Lee County Conservation Association, Chris Wilhelm 2024 University of Central Florida

Seagrass-Roots Environmentalism: The Lee County Conservation Association, Chris Wilhelm

Florida Historical Quarterly

After World War II, Florida crafted a new identity: the Sunshine State. This concept was not solely based on Florida's hot weather and sunny skies although the relationship between sun and water was implicit in the new identity. Tourists enjoyed the sun on boats and beaches, retirees and snowbirds fled northern winters for new sunny coastal cities. The heat of Florida's sunshine was thus balanced by the state's coastal waters. The Sunshine State is a convenient slogan, but Florida is actually defined by its coast. Other states have more sunshine, but none in the continental U.S. have more coastline or …


The Match Of The Century, Scott Kingdon 2024 University of Central Florida

The Match Of The Century, Scott Kingdon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fierce competition drove the 1920s Florida land boom. There was competition between regions of the state, competition between developers, and, it turned out, competition between the two best golfers in the world.


A Movement For The Birds: Pelican Island And The Origins Of The First American Wildlife Refuge, Evan B. Jaynes 2024 University of Central Florida

A Movement For The Birds: Pelican Island And The Origins Of The First American Wildlife Refuge, Evan B. Jaynes

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Very well then, I So Declare It." This is supposedly what President Theodore Roosevelt said early in 1903 when he was informed that there was not any law that would prevent him from making Pelican Island a federally protected wildlife reserve. Shortly thereafter, on March 14, 1903, Roosevelt issued an executive order that established Pelican Island-a small and seemingly unremarkable piece of land off Florida's Atlantic-facing coast-as the nation's first wildlife sanctuary. Proclaiming that the island be "reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds," the action …


Anton Alaminos, Juan Ponce De Leon And A 1513-1514 European Discovery Of Mexico, Sam Turner 2024 University of Central Florida

Anton Alaminos, Juan Ponce De Leon And A 1513-1514 European Discovery Of Mexico, Sam Turner

Florida Historical Quarterly

On October 12, 1519, during the early days of the Spanish conquest of what is today Mexico, an irate Diego Velazquez, Governor of Cuba, wrote to the young Charles V of Spain from the port of Santiago de Cuba. In his letter he complained that a vessel had arrived August 23rd of that year, secretly and illegally from Mexico, with a substantial cargo of gold and jewels. The vessel carried Captain Francisco de Montejo, who would one day be the Governor of Yucatan and Honduras, and Captain Alonso Hernandez Puerto Carrero. The vessel sailed under the expert guidance of the …


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Anton Alaminos, Juan Ponce de Leon and a 1513-1514 European Discovery of Mexico by Sam Turner
A Movement for the Birds: Pelican Island and the Origins of the First American Wildlife Refuge by Evan B. Jaynes
The Match of the Century by Scott Kingdon
Seagrass-roots Environmentalism: The Lee County Conservation Association by Chris Wilhelm
The History of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR): A Partnership of Rockets and Wildlife by Charles Venuto
Invading Eden: Exotic Pets and Invasive Species in South Florida by Andrew Pemberton
End Notes


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 99, No. 1/2, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 99, No. 1/2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Index To Volume 98, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Index To Volume 98, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institutes (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Florida Historical Society Awards; Florida Historical Quarterly News; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


An Exiled Carolina Loyalist In British East Florida And The Bahama Islands, John Hairr 2024 University of Central Florida

An Exiled Carolina Loyalist In British East Florida And The Bahama Islands, John Hairr

Florida Historical Quarterly

Colonel David Fanning was without question the most successful commander of Loyalist forces in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War. Fanning never lost a battle in which he commanded and gained renown for being instrumental in the capture of Whig North Carolina Governor Thomas Burke. Fanning left the Carolinas when Charles Town, South Carolina, was evacuated, settling with his wife in British East Florida until they were forced to abandon their new home along with the rest of the British refugees when the province was returned to the Spanish government in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. After trying to …


Paradise Is Dynamic: Florida's Changing Landscape, Thomas Chesnes 2024 University of Central Florida

Paradise Is Dynamic: Florida's Changing Landscape, Thomas Chesnes

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following interview was conducted in the summer of 2020. Thomas Chesnes, the interviewee, is long-time professor of biology at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. A native Floridian, Chesnes completed all of his degrees at the University of Florida in Gainesville (Ph.D., environmental engineering sciences/systems ecology/wetlands; M.S., environmental engineering sciences/estuarine systems; B.S., zoology). His research has focused on seagrasses, soil salinity, the Gulf killifish, the mangrove saltmarsh snake, the Atlantic red snapper, and all matters pertaining to wetlands, coastal habitats, and aquatic environments. For over a quarter of century, with numerous grants awarded (including a $50,000 …


John Grattan Gamble's Mother And Sisters: Antebellum Aristrocrats And Their Flight From Successful Women, John T. Foster 2024 University of Central Florida

John Grattan Gamble's Mother And Sisters: Antebellum Aristrocrats And Their Flight From Successful Women, John T. Foster

Florida Historical Quarterly

There were prominent women in Antebellum Richmond whose lives resemble women of today. Catherine Grattan Gamble and her daughter, Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, participated in their husbands' careers and sought places of equality with their spouses long before such behavior became common. Their lives are a dramatic departure from images of the Old South and the heritage claimed by relatives who became prominent in Middle Florida.


Good Roads And The Dixie Highway: Connecting Florida With The Rest Of The Nation, Patrick Sheridan 2024 University of Central Florida

Good Roads And The Dixie Highway: Connecting Florida With The Rest Of The Nation, Patrick Sheridan

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the early twentieth century, the creation of new highways enabled the United States to transition from rail to automobiles as its primary mode of travel. These highways resulted from the efforts of the national "Good Roads Movement," which promoted the construction of highways to enable the use of automobiles for both business and pleasure. This article looks at the Good Roads Movement in Florida and its connection with the Dixie Highway, the first major north-south highway connecting Florida with the rest of the United States, during its peak years between 1910 and 1930. This movement led to two significant …


A Year-Round Playground Twenty-Seven Hours From Broadway: Re-Assessing Jacksonville's Legacy As An "Almost Hollywood, David Morton 2024 University of Central Florida

A Year-Round Playground Twenty-Seven Hours From Broadway: Re-Assessing Jacksonville's Legacy As An "Almost Hollywood, David Morton

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Attention Producers who contemplate sending companies South this winter ... We furnish the need of the visiting producer. Props, locations, studios, stage space, expert help, autos, electricians, property rnen, cameramen, high-grade extra help, carpenters, we do expert developing and printing ... Public cooperation is a feature of this city: A year-round playground 27 hours from Broadway."


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Hidden History of the Florida-born, Early Progressive Nurse Leader: Mary E. MacDonald Carter, Christine Ardalan
A Year-Round Playground Twenty-Seven Hours from Broadway: Re-Assessing Jacksonville's Legacy as an "Almost Hollywood," David Morton
John Grattan Gamble's Mother and Sisters: Antebellum Aristrocrats and Their Flight from Successful Women, John T. Foster and Joshua Butler
An Exiled Carolina Loyalist in British East Florida and the Bahama Islands, John Hairr
End Notes
Index to Volume 98


The Hidden History Of The Florida-Born, Early Progressive Nurse Leader: Mary E. Macdonald Carter, Christine Ardalan 2024 University of Central Florida

The Hidden History Of The Florida-Born, Early Progressive Nurse Leader: Mary E. Macdonald Carter, Christine Ardalan

Florida Historical Quarterly

The young women of Miami High School gathered in the auditorium on April 4, 1919, for a vocational hour to bear "a number of Miami's most brilliant and successful women [impart] a taste of what is to be accomplished by choosing the fitting vocation and getting a right start." The Rev. Mrs. Mecca Marie Varney (1873-1959), the organizer of the event, was well known in Miami with clout to draw the adept speakers together. Hailing from Iowa, the evangelical minister was a national leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a lecturer on the Chautauqua Circuit. Earning widespread …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 98, No. 3/4, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 98, No. 3/4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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