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Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida seceded from the Union, Taylor county was four years old, it having been created from Madison county on December 23, 1856. As a functioning political unit its age was at least six months less, for the members of its first board of county commissioners were not qualified until March 27, 1857, and its first judge of probate, one of whose duties was to preside at board meetings, was not commissioned until July 4, following.

Comte De Castelnau In Middle Florida, 1837-1838, Arthur R. Seymour

Florida Historical Quarterly

Included in the last issue of this QUARTERLY was Comte de Castelnau’s account of his visit to the Tallahassee region more than a century ago: Essai sur la Floride du Milieu. In addition, the Count published Vues et Souvenirs de l'Amerique du Nord (Paris, 1842), and Note de deux Itineraires de Charleston a Tallahassee, the latter of which appeared in Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. These are reprinted here, both being translated by Dr. Seymour.

Essay On Middle Florida (Essai Sur La Floride Du Milieu), Comte De Castelnau

Florida Historical Quarterly

Translated by Arthur R. Seymour (Note-This essay was published in Nouvelles Annales des Voyages et des Sciences Geographiques, cx, vol. iv (1843) pp. 129-208. It will be followed in subsequent issues of the QUARTERLY by extracts translated from “Vues et Souvenirs de l’Amerique du Nord,” also by Francis de Castelnau (Paris, 1842), descriptive of eleven plates (of thirty-five in the volume) which are of Florida interest. Seven of these will be reproduced. There will be published also a translation of “Note de deux Itineraries de Charleston a Tallahassee” by the same author, which appeared in Bulletin de la Societe de …

From Pensacola To St. Augustine In 1827: A Journey Of The Rt. Rev. Michael Portier, Michael Portier

Florida Historical Quarterly

Michel Portier was born in Montbrison, France, in 1795. Entering the priesthood, he came to the United States in 1817, and in 1826 was made first Vicar Apostolic of the newly created vicariate of Alabama and the Floridas, in which there were but three parishes: Mobile, Pensacola and St. Augustine. It was Bishop Portier who in 1830 established Spring Hill College at Mobile, the influence of which on education in the South has been felt for more than a century. This account of his journey across Florida was written in French and published in Annales de la Propagation de la …

The Everglades Before Reclamation, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of the Everglades and their early history is one result of the author’s extensive research into all available sources. The full story of the Everglades including reclamation is the subject of an unpublished dissertation by the author which was accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina.

Stephen Russell Mallory Part Ii, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of those who have been identified with early Key West, one who has been given highest acclaim is Ellen Mallory, Stephen R. Mallory’s mother.

Stephen Russell Mallory, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perhaps Charles Mallory, as he worked at his carpenter’s bench somewhere in New England, dreamed that some day he might have a son to work beside him or to follow him at the same bench; and later, now a building superintendent and contractor in the island of Trinidad off the coast of South America, he may have dreamed again that the little Stephen playing about his shop or office, might become a great man. But if so, the reality far surpassed his dreams-for the boy became a member of the foremost legislative body of the world, and later was one …

The City Of Wreckers: Two Key West Letters Of 1838, Kenneth Scott

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the time of the war with the Seminoles a northern attorney, Charles Walker, spent some time at Key West. While there he sent two detailed letters to an uncle and aunt, Timothy Walker and his wife, Lydia, in his native Concord, New Hampshire. The pleasing style and keen observation of the writer afford a vivid picture of Key West shortly before 1840.

Theatrical Entertainment In Early Florida, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Theatrical entertainment in early Florida was greatly facilitated by water transportation. The Florida towns with which this story is concerned were all within easy distance, by sea or river, of cities which had well-established professional theatres. They therefore provided actors in those theatres with favorable opportunities to supplement their regular season by a preceding or subsequent engagement; or, sometimes, to fill up part of an otherwise vacant summer.

The Port Of St. Augustine During The British Regime, Part Ii, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

Loyal to King George III, East Florida soon became involved with her rebellious neighbors to the northward. Wartime was reflected in the shipping at St. Augustine and the privateering in nearby waters. The first hostility of that neighborhood was the seizure of one hundred and eleven barrels and thirty-seven kegs of gunpowder from the English brigantine Betsy in July 1775 by a South Carolina sloop outside the bar. The aggressor escaped to the northward.

Vertebrate Impact On A Newly Deployed Shoreline Stabilization Project By Wildlife Camera Analysis, Julia Rifenberg, Jason Litwak, Rebecca Fillyaw

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

Living shoreline stabilization is a technique that utilizes plants and other natural elements to protect estuarine coasts. Research has provided minimal information about which vertebrate species utilize living shorelines post-deployment. For this project, ten wildlife cameras were placed along a living shoreline site in Canaveral National Seashore (CANA) to document which vertebrate species utilize the living shoreline and surrounding vegetation. This shoreline was stabilized with red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) and eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) shell bags in June 2019. The cameras, activated by motion sensors, remained at the site for five days a month for seven …

Knowledge Organization Systems & Their Applications, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This training session introduces Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) and their applications especially in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. It talks about various KOS systems including term lists, subject headings, categorization schemas, classification schemas, taxonomies, thesauri, semantic networks and ontologies. It gives many KOS examples especially those pertain to LIS such as BIBFRAME. It also discusses the process and different methods of creating categories, tag libraries and taxonomies. It was delivered to librarians and staff members in Technical Services at the University Central Florida Libraries and aimed to help catalogers better understand knowledge organization related concepts and systems in …

Governor Salazar’S Wheat Farm Project, 1645-1657, Katherine S. Lawson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The governors of Florida from the founding of St. Augustine in 1565 to the evacuation in 1763 were continually faced with food shortage, even with starvation; for St. Augustine knew hunger pangs many times, when ships bringing supplies to the Presidio were wrecked, were captured by pirates, or in some years failed to be sent from Mexico with the flour ordered furnished to Florida by the king’s command. So of much interest are the records of a project, covering the years 1645 to 1657, for a wheat farm (trigo hacienda) the result of the determination of Governor Salazar (who may …

The Florida Banditti, 1783, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

East Florida was ill at ease on receiving, in the spring of 1783, news of the retrocession of the province to Spain. The necessity of abandoning homes in a land to which government and people alike were attached, together with the uncertainties, vexations, and difficulties of finding new homes elsewhere presented to all a dark picture of the future. In the midst of these apprehensions some of the settlers at least were troubled by the depredations of a group of lawless men whom Governor Patrick Tonyn described as banditti.

Tequesta: Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The fourth issue of Tequesta, “The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida” appeared while the last number of our Quarterly was in press. This one was edited by Professor Leonard R. Muller, of the University of Miami, with an advisory board of Harold E. Briggs, David O. True, and H. Frank Williams.

Pioneer Florida: The Pad-Guad At Pensacola, 1830, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any well-rounded history of a country or of a section must include an account of the habits, customs and pastimes of its people in each generation. For Florida, not much has been told of these during our pioneer period from 1821, when it became a possession of the United States, to its admission to statehood in 1845. The human side of life in that period was recorded mostly in the minds of the old inhabitants, and when that generation passed the records were gone too. Every bit of authentic information relating to this period such as diaries and contemporaneous letters, …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Mowat, “Florida’s First Publicity Campaign.’’; Hanna, ‘‘Frederick Delius in Florida.’’

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Clark’s translation of Espinosa, Albert Manucy; The Letters of Don Juan McQueen, Katherine S. Lawson

Tequesta, The Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The third issue of Tequesta, The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, appeared while our last number was in press. The issue was edited by Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau of the University of Miami, with an advisory editorial board of Gaines R. Wilson, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, and Leonard R. Muller. While war conditions have reduced its size, the high quality of former numbers is maintained.

A Hitherto Unknown Map Of The Pensacola Coastal Region, 1762, R. H. Barlow

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the Sala de Cartografia of the State Museum of Jalisco (Mexico) in Guadalajara, exists a vellum map bearing the number 25. It is the entire hide of a small animal, drawn on in red, green and black. At the bottom is written the following:

“Carta reducida de la costa de Panzacola desde el cavo [sic] del norte, hasta el de S. Blas, corregida nuevamente, por D. Estevan de Ayarragaray, piloto de esta ensenada, y la dirige al exelmo Sor Marques de Cruillas, ***rrey de esta Nueva Espana, por orden del Sr. Diego Ortiz Parilla, governador del presidio de Panzacola. …

Botanical Explorers Of The Southeastern United States, H. Harold Hume

Florida Historical Quarterly

The southeastern United States, and in particular the part now embraced within the state of Florida, is an unusual area from the standpoint of its plant life. Here nature with a lavish hand scattered far and wide an unrivaled flora. It has no counterpart either in the United States or in the whole world. The number of species is great and individual specimens of the higher plants so numerous that in the pristine condition they completely covered the surface of the soil on all but the poorest lands. In support of this statement it may be added that there are …

St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

Several years ago, in an article in the Quarterly, Abbot Charles H. Mohr, O. S. B., gave an interesting account of the work of the Franciscans in Florida during the first Spanish regime and described the strange history of their monastic buildings, which were converted into barracks during the British period and still give the name, and probably considerably more than the name, to the present day St. Francis Barracks on Marine street in St. Augustine. These barracks thus furnish a link of unusual interest between the present day and both the transitory regime of the British in East Florida …

Milly Francis And Duncan Mckrimmon, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hillis Hadjo, known in English as Francis the Prophet, was a Creek chief of considerable prominence. When the famous Indian Tecumseh visited the Creek Indians during the opening phase of the War of 1812 to enlist them in the cause of the British, Francis became his convert. He was then living near the Chattahoochee river in the present state of Alabama. In the campaign of General Andrew Jackson in 1813-14 against the Creeks, Francis was driven into Spanish Florida and finally took up his abode near the Spanish Fort St. Marks.

George J. F. Clarke, 1774-1836, Louise Biles Hill

Florida Historical Quarterly

Here is a man who was an English colonial by birth, a Spanish citizen by naturalization, and died an American citizen by virtue of the treaty through which the United States acquired the Floridas. All occurred in St. Augustine!-though some of his mature years were spent in Fernandina and in St. Marys, Georgia.

Spanish Colonial Contacts With The Ais (Indian River) Country, Charles D. Higgs

Florida Historical Quarterly

The narratives of the early explorers and the Spanish archives of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are replete with references concerning shipwrecks in the Bahama channel. This passage which gave to Florida its strategic importance, offered a course with more favoring winds and a safer route for the homeward-bound treasure fleets from Mexico, but was in itself distinctly hazardous. Ships and even whole fleets were too often wrecked all along the “Banda del Sur”, or South Coast, from St. Augustine to the lower keys. The majority of these disasters occurred along that bight of the shore, south of Cape Canaveral, …

Castle St. Mark And The Patriots Of The Revolution, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS is a token of Spain’s determination to protect her vast New World riches in the face of seemingly inexorable English rivalry, encroachment, and actual piracy. This aged citadel, renamed Fort Marion by the Americans, is now Castillo de San Marcos National Monument at St. Augustine. Engineer Ignacio Daza laid the first stone for the foundations in 1672, and the fort became a focal point of colonial culture - Spain’s last impregnable outpost on the shores of the North Atlantic. Now, with the passage of two and a half centuries, it represents to us something of the …

Success Of Glover’S Reef Marine Reserve On Queen Conch (Strombus Gigas) Populations In Belize, Gianna Fanelli, Ciera Jarrett, Sara Joralemon

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

The queen conch (Strombus gigas) provides important economic, ecological, and societal benefits to local communities throughout the Caribbean. The species, however, has fallen victim to commercial exploitation and overfishing in many areas. In Belize, even with restricted harvesting seasons, size restrictions, and regulations set by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), harvesting practices have significantly depleted populations. Marine reserves, including the Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve, were established to protect biodiversity and maintain populations of Belize’s natural coral reefs. Utilizing size, frequency, and evidence of harvesting (shell notches), the 2018 Tropical Marine Biology (BSC 3355) course …

Research Projects On Florida Subjects, Watt Marchman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Walter B. Hill, librarian, University of Florida; Louise Richardson, librarian, Florida State College for Women; Charlotte Smith, librarian, John B. Stetson University; G. A. Nuermberger, reference librarian, Duke University ; Robert J. Usher, librarian, Tulane University; and to Mrs. Sarah H. Hall, University of Georgia Library. Without constant cooperation and advice of Professor A. J. Hanna, chairman, Advisory Council, Union Catalog of Floridiana, the compilation would not have been possible. An alphabetical arrangement has been adopted. Abbreviations are : contem. (contemplated) ; compl. (completed) ; prog. (in progress) ; print. (in press) ; art. (article).

Recent Publications: Federal Archives Of Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This series of publications was described in the Quarterly, the issue of July 1940 (pp. 88-90). It is a WPA project. Each volume is an inventory of the archives of some department of the Federal government in Florida. Several additional volumes have now appeared: the departments of the Navy, Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, Labor, Farm Credit Administration, and Veterans’ Administration.

Spanish Contributions In Florida To American Culture, Verne E. Chatelain

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the numerous steps taken by Spain during the sixteenth century in its efforts to establish dominion over the New World, none are deserving of greater attention from the standpoint of our own national history than the founding of St. Augustine in the year 1565. The fact that this little settlement which was only one of approximately 200 Spanish towns and cities then existing in the Indies, remained a Spanish colony for nearly two centuries and was always an indispensable factor in the defensive strategy employed by Spain for safe-guarding its commerce as well as in perpetuating its control over …