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William J. Howey And His Florida Dreams, Melvin Edward Hughes, Jr.
William J. Howey And His Florida Dreams, Melvin Edward Hughes, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
William John Howey was a land speculator who came to Florida in 1908 and devised a unique land sales and development program on nearly 60,000 acres of land in Lake County. Howey’s plan, based on the sale of undeveloped citrus land, led to the creation of Howey-in-the-Hills, a town he envisioned as the “City Inevitable.“ In addition to this visionary enterprise Howey ran as the Republican candidate for governor of Florida in 1928, and again in 1932.
Vegetable Hair: The Spanish Moss Industry In Florida, Anne Gometz Foshee
Vegetable Hair: The Spanish Moss Industry In Florida, Anne Gometz Foshee
Florida Historical Quarterly
Some people do not care for Spanish moss. According to an anonymous writer in the American Cyclopedia in 1881 “its effect, on account of its sombre color, is not altogether pleasing.“ However, the moss, eyecatching feature of the southern landscape that it is, has usually been regarded as an aesthetic asset, appealing to tourists and to the romantically-minded. Many people today have forgotten, if they ever knew, that it was once a more direct economic asset, serving a number of utilitarian purposes. Along with its value as a cattle feed and as a cheap packing material for crates of fruits …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 66, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Eighty-fifth Meeting, Proceedings of the Eighty-fifth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops 1987
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida History Fair, Conferences, Announcements and Activities, Obituary
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
PANTON, LESLIE & COMPANY AND JOHN FORBES & COMPANY, 1783-1847, by William S. Coker and Thomas D. Watson, reviewed by James H. O’Donnell III; GATOR HISTORY: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, by Samuel Proctor and Wright Langley, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; PALM BEACH COUNTY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, by Donald W. Curl, reviewed by Thelma Peters; OUTPOSTS ON THE GULF: SAINT GEORGE ISLAND & APALACHICOLA FROM EARLY EXPLORATION TO WORLD WAR II, by William Warren Rogers, reviewed by George F. Pearce; VICTORIAN FLORIDA: AMERICA'S LAST FRONTIER, by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; …
On The Land For Life: Black Tenant Farmers On Tall Timbers Plantation, Susan Hamburger
On The Land For Life: Black Tenant Farmers On Tall Timbers Plantation, Susan Hamburger
Florida Historical Quarterly
Since the 1830s the Tall Timbers Research Station land in northern Leon County, Florida, supported agricultural pursuits ranging from antebellum cotton plantations to twentieth-century quail hunting to fire management studies. The continual thread from the 1830s to the 1940s is the black worker, who evolved from slave to tenant farmer. This study will concentrate on the continuity of occupancy on this land of selected black families from 1865 to 1900.
Minorcan Population Of St. Augustine In The Spanish Census Of 1786, Philip D. Rasico
Minorcan Population Of St. Augustine In The Spanish Census Of 1786, Philip D. Rasico
Florida Historical Quarterly
Nearly half a century ago the noted historian of Spanish colonial Florida, Joseph Byrne Lockey published a transcription, accompanied by a preface and notes, of the Spanish census of St. Augustine and its vicinity which was prepared in December 1786 by the Salamanca-educated Irish priest, Thomas Hassett. An incomplete draft of this document is in the East Florida Papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. Lockey’s translation of the draft is also incomplete; he omits the lengthy section which contains the largest and most ethnically-diverse sector of St. Augustine’s civilian population during the early years of the …
"New Red Atlantis": John Collier's Encounter With The Florida Seminoles In 1935, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
"New Red Atlantis": John Collier's Encounter With The Florida Seminoles In 1935, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In March 1935, some two years following his appointment as commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Collier paid his first official visit to the Seminole Tribe in Florida. Although recognized as one of the nation’s leading Indian Rights advocates throughout the 1920s Collier’s work had been focused almost exclusively among the western tribes. As secretary of the American Indian Defense Association, he frequently appeared before various congressional committees, testifying on such issues as tribal water and mineral rights, control of reservation lands, and Indian religious freedom. His name had become synonymous with a progressive commitment to …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 66, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Awards, International Spanish Conference, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
KEY WEST: CIGAR CITY U.S.A., by L. Glenn Westfall, reviewed by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.; FLORIDA'S PAST: PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE STATE, by Gene M. Burnett, reviewed by Jesse Earle Bowden; A HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY, FLORIDA, by Elizabeth Hunter Sims, reviewed by Eloise Goza Allen; VOYAGERS TO THE WEST: A PASSAGE IN THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION, by Bernard Bailyn, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; CUBA, 1753-1815: CROWN, MILITARY, AND SOCIETY, by Allan J. Kuethe, reviewed by Kenneth F. Kiple; THE SOUTHERN INDIANS AND BENJAMIN HAWKINS, 1796-1816, by Florette Henri, reviewed by …
Florida History In Periodicals, 1986, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Periodicals, 1986, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1986. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1986 issue of the Quarterly.
The Alachua-St. Marys Road, Burke G. Vanderhill
The Alachua-St. Marys Road, Burke G. Vanderhill
Florida Historical Quarterly
The foot trails and rough cart roads of early nineteenth-century Florida reflected the needs for communication and trade which were changed significantly as the territory was organized and development began under American administration. Nevertheless, there was a tendency for continued local use of these old routes long after the original functions had been lost. Not only was it easier to improve or modify an existing trace than to cut an entirely new one through the Florida forests, but the early routes were relatively felicitous, following the drainage divides, skirting the extensive swampland tracts, and avoiding more difficult river crossings. Numerous …
Creating A Different Pattern: Florida's Women Legislators, 1928-1986, Mary Carolyn Ellis
Creating A Different Pattern: Florida's Women Legislators, 1928-1986, Mary Carolyn Ellis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida in the nineteenth century was a traditional southern state. The legacy from the Civil War and Reconstruction lingered into the early decades of the twentieth century, principally with regard to cultural expectations, racial prejudice, and one-party Democratic politics. Women’s roles in the society were carefully defined, and there was not much divergence from cultural expectations. Florida Congressman Frank Clark expressed this traditional attitude in 1915: “Let us then leave woman where she is— the loveliest of all creation, queen of the household.“
Twilight Of The Mocamo And Guale Aborigines As Portrayed In The 1695 Spanish Visitation, John H. Hann
Twilight Of The Mocamo And Guale Aborigines As Portrayed In The 1695 Spanish Visitation, John H. Hann
Florida Historical Quarterly
The natives of Mocamo and Guale on the coasts of Georgia and northern Florida were the first with whom the French and then the Spaniards established steady contact in the 1560s and among the first to be missionized. Yet, as scholars have remarked, surprisingly little is known about these people during the historic period either archaeologically or historically. Only for the years 1597-1606 are there detailed published accounts of events in the Guale and Mocamo missions in the works of John Tate Lanning, Maynard Geiger, OFM, and Manuel Serrano y Sanz, and in Kathleen Deagan’s chapter on the eastern Timucua …
Florida And The World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893, Stephen Kerber
Florida And The World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893, Stephen Kerber
Florida Historical Quarterly
It is a common misconception that Chicago, Illinois, is known as “the Windy City” for its weather. Actually, the name originated during the nineteenth century as a derisive comment upon the often-exaggerated rhetoric employed by Chicagoans engaged in praising their community. This prideful attitude would find its finest and most enduring expression in the poetry of Carl Sandburg. It was this same spirit of aggressive boosterism which in the 1890s enabled Chicagoans to win congressional approval to host on behalf of the nation a great international exposition celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 66, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Florida Archaeology Bibliography, Exhibition, Announcements and Activities
Index To Volume Lxv, Florida Historical Society
Index To Volume Lxv, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Florida Historical Society
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE IDEA OF FLORIDA IN THE AMERICAN LITERARY IMAGINATION, by Anne E. Rowe, reviewed by Richard Dwyer; INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND SLAVES: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS, edited by Kenneth W. Johnson, Jonathan M. Leader, and Robert C. Wilson, reviewed by Elizabeth J. Reitz; THE ARCHEOLOGY OF SLAVERY AND PLANTATION LIFE, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, reviewed by John S. Otto; THE PAPERS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, VOLUME 5, 1853-1855, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix, reviewed by Bertram Wyatt-Brown; ON THE THRESHOLD OF FREEDOM: MASTERS AND SLAVES IN CIVIL WAR GEORGIA ,by Clarence L. Mohr, reviewed …
Roosevelts "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps In Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner
Roosevelts "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps In Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Civilian Conservation Corps— officially known as Emergency Conservation Work until 1937— was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s favorite New Deal programs and certainly one of the most popular among the American people. Roosevelt saw great opportunities in the prospect of an agency which would help stimulate the devastated economy of the nation while salvaging two of its most valuable resources, the land and the nation’s youth. At the president’s urging, Congress enacted a law on March 31, 1933, authorizing emergency conservation work in which 300,000 young men could be employed in wholesome work preserving the nation’s natural resources. …
Marion Post And The Farm Security Administration In Florida, Robert E. Snyder
Marion Post And The Farm Security Administration In Florida, Robert E. Snyder
Florida Historical Quarterly
Between 1933 and 1940, and continuing through World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent billions of dollars through a number of agencies on a variety of relief and recovery measures. Persuading Congress and the American public that mammoth appropriations were necessary to ameliorate the privations suffered by the bottom third of the nation required a constant lobbying and educational effort. To show the needs of the ill-housed, ill-fed, and ill-clothed during the Great Depression, and to record the progress made by the New Deal, a documentary photography project was established in 1935 in the Resettlement Administration (RA), and became …
"Yonder Come Day": Religious Dimensions Of The Transition From Slavery To Freedom In Florida, Robert L. Hall
"Yonder Come Day": Religious Dimensions Of The Transition From Slavery To Freedom In Florida, Robert L. Hall
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Confederate firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 was a watershed not only in the political and military history of the United States, but also a turning point in its social history. The heady wine of secessionism and the rupturing of lines of communication and calm moral discourse were experienced in some religious polities for more than a decade before the fateful military event. Southern Methodists and Baptists had parted company with their non-southern counterparts by 1845, when, as John Hope Franklin has written, “slavery had become as much a part of the religious orthodoxy of the South as the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 65, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Charlton Tebeau Chair, D. B. McKay Award, Announcements and Awards, Obituary
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MAY MANN JENNINGS: FLORIDA’S GENTEEL ACTIVIST, by Linda D. Vance, reviewed by Joan S. Carver; A HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN MANATEE COUNTY, FLORIDA, by Robert E. King, reviewed by Mark V. Barrow; LA REPÚBLICA DE LAS FLORIDAS: TEXTS AND DOCUMENTS, compiled by David Bushnell, reviewed by Bruce S. Chappell; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774 - 1789, VOLUME 11: OCTOBER 1, 1778 - JANUARY 31, 1779, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerald W. Gawalt, Ronald M. Gephart, and Eugene R. Sheridan, LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 12: FEBRUARY 1, 1779 - MARCH 31, 1779, edited …
Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler
Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although James Patton Anderson has received relatively little historical recognition, the contributions he made to Florida’s Civil War effort are worthy of historical study.