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New Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
New Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
News, Florida's quadricentennial celebration, local historical societies, Junior Historical Contest
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Sorrell, Gilbert Moxley. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer, Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley. Monographs, Sources, and Reprints in Southern History (Jackson, Tenn., 1958. McCowat-Mercer Press, 1958. Illustrations, appendixes, index. $5.00.); Hurricane. By Marjory Stoneman Douglas. (New York and Toronto, Rinehart & Co., 1958. viii, 393 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $5.95.)
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Florida Handbook, 1959-60. Compiled by Allen Morris. (Tallahassee, Peninsular Publishing Company, 1959. xvi, 486 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. $4.00.); The Whigs of Florida, 1845-1854. By Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. University of Florida Monographs, Social Sciences, No. 1. (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1959. 73 pp. $2.00 Paper.); True Tales of the Florida West Coast, By Jack Beater. (Wordshop House, Fort Myers, 1959. 125 pp. Illustrations. $1.00 Paper.)
The Journals Of Lieutenant John Pickell, 1836-1837, Frank L. White, Jr.
The Journals Of Lieutenant John Pickell, 1836-1837, Frank L. White, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the summer of 1837, virtually all military operations against the Seminoles ceased. For several months after General Thomas S. Jesup’s agreement with the Indians in March, only sporadic fighting had occurred in Florida. The Army was employed in encouraging the Indians to assemble for emigration to the West as provided by the truce and in exploring the country. At the same time, however, additional troops were arriving to resume hostilities, if this should become necessary. The Seminoles, on the other hand, used this period to delay their embarkation and at the same time to continue their attacks upon white …
A Massachusetts Traveller On The Florida Frontier, Arthur W. Thompson
A Massachusetts Traveller On The Florida Frontier, Arthur W. Thompson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following passage is an excerpt from the travel diary of W. T. Allen. Leaving his home in Leominster, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1852, Allen enjoyed a forty-nine day tour of the Eastern portion of the United States. He journeyed by rail and boat to New York City and then by boat to Savannah, Georgia, and Florida. His stay in Florida lasted sixteen days, from March 21st to April 6th, and the account of his experiences on the Florida frontier comprises about fifteen of the fifty-five pages of his diary. After leaving Florida, Allen travelled to Savannah, Macon, Montgomery, Mobile, …
Trade Relations Between Southwestern Florida And Cuba, 1600-1840, James W. Covington
Trade Relations Between Southwestern Florida And Cuba, 1600-1840, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Cuba had been settled by the Spanish, heavy inroads were made into the nearby supply of edible fish, and the Havana fishing interests were forced to look elsewhere for a ready source. Southwestern Florida with its almost inexhaustible schools of drum, redfish, mullet, pompano, and grouper was situated only a short distance away and easily fitted into the Havana market situation. The combination of the excellent Cuban market and the nearby available supply of edible fish proved to be a business opportunity which would be profitable for many years for the inhabitants of both the island of Cuba and …
The Return Of Runaway Slaves 1790-1794, Richard K. Murdoch
The Return Of Runaway Slaves 1790-1794, Richard K. Murdoch
Florida Historical Quarterly
Among the duties assumed by the federal government after the ratification of the constitution was the general supervision over relations with the Indians living both within and without what were generally claimed to be the national boundaries. This assumption of authority was resented by many of the frontier residents long accustomed to dealing directly with the Indians. They were convinced, rightfully or wrongfully, that all savages were to be mistrusted, that the so-called Indian lands were open to seizure and settlement by the first to arrive on the scene, and that there was nothing illegal or immoral in acquiring the …
The Spanish Dance, Louis Capron
The Spanish Dance, Louis Capron
Florida Historical Quarterly
All through the early social history of Florida runs mention of “the Spanish Dance.” Authorities agree that, until after the war between the States, it and the waltz were far and away the favorite dances. But today, a hundred years later, is has disappeared as completely as though it never existed. It is never danced. Nothing answering its description is to be found in books on the dance, encyclopedias or histories of the dance. Two years of search and inquiry brought out not a single person who had even heard of it. “The Spanish Dance is peculiar to Florida,” Ellen …
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This double numbered Pensacola Quadricentennial issue of the Quarterly was planned and edited by Julien C. Yonge. For thirty-one years, 1924-1955, Mr. Yonge edited the Florida Historical Quarterly. As Editor Emeritus, and in addition to his duties as Director of the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, he prepared an index to the first thirty-five volumes of the Quarterly. The Index, Volumes I-XXXV was published in 1958.
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
News of local historical societies
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries. Edited by Emma Lila Fundaburk and Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman. (Luverne, Alabama, 1957. 232 pp. Plates, bibliography, index. $7.50.); The Travels of William Bartram. Naturalist’s Edition. Edited by Francis Harper. (New Haven, Yale University Press. 1958. 727 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, annotated index, general index. $8.50); Memphis During the Progressive Era, 1900-1917. By William D. Miller. (Memphis, Memphis State University Press; Madison, American History Research Center, 1957. xiii, 195 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $4.50.); Inside the Confederate Government; the Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean. Edited by …
Fred N. Varn's Account Book, 1869-1875, Fred N. Varn
Fred N. Varn's Account Book, 1869-1875, Fred N. Varn
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the period following the Civil War, Florida slowly regained her economic balance, and a few industries began to prosper in a moderate sort of way. The interior part of the lower peninsula was hampered by a shortage of currency, and many persons resorted to a barter system. The records kept by Fred N. Varn, who operated a store and tannery on his farm situated two miles from Fort Meade, illustrate this type of barter.
Reminiscences Or A Florida Pioneer: John M. Mcintosh, Samuel Proctor
Reminiscences Or A Florida Pioneer: John M. Mcintosh, Samuel Proctor
Florida Historical Quarterly
Comparatively few pioneers of nineteenth-century Florida left accounts of their lives or the times in which they lived. So engrossed were they in constructing the material and cultural foundations of a new state that they had little time for recording their experiences and observations.
"Early Birds" Of Florida, Walter P. Fuller
"Early Birds" Of Florida, Walter P. Fuller
Florida Historical Quarterly
St. Petersburg is the proud and jealous owner of the title of home port of “The first regularly scheduled commercial Airline in the world.” This despite the fact it acquired the title quite accidentally; the unexpected result of a rather casual and typical publicity stunt sponsored by one of its early day flamboyant “characters,” one Noel A. Mitchell.
Manrique De Rojas' Report On French Settlement In Florida, Lucy L. Wenhold
Manrique De Rojas' Report On French Settlement In Florida, Lucy L. Wenhold
Florida Historical Quarterly
The French Huguenot Jean Ribaut had led an expedition to Florida in 1562, where he set up stone columns bearing the arms of France and established the tiny settlement of Charlesfort at Port Royal. Philip II of Spain protested to the French government against this threat to Spanish trade and territorial claims, and then, in 1563, he directed the governor of Cuba to remove the French markers and to destroy the French fort. The mission was assigned by the governor of Cuba to Hernando Manrique de Rojas. Captain Manrique’s instructions and his report, given here in translation, were taken from …
The Shaker Community In Florida, Russell H. Anderson
The Shaker Community In Florida, Russell H. Anderson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Many residents of Osceola County, Florida, recall a kindly though strange religious group, the Shakers, who once lived near present day St. Cloud-but the memory of these good people is fading. It should be recorded that beginning in 1894, Osceola County was the scene of one of the later efforts of an outstanding utopian movement in America-that of the Shaker religious group.
Zespedes And The Southern Conspiracies, Helen Hornbeck Tanner
Zespedes And The Southern Conspiracies, Helen Hornbeck Tanner
Florida Historical Quarterly
The peace treaty by which the American colonists gained their independence in 1783 created a situation along their southern border almost designed, it seemed, to provoke hostility. By the treaty, the provinces of East and West Florida, which had belonged to Britain for the previous twenty years and had remained loyal to the Crown, were returned to Spain. Thus Europe’s oldest colonial power regained a foothold on the southeastern seaboard of North America, but now was threatened by an ambitious young republic - the first independent nation in the western hemisphere. Furthermore, a portion of the border remained in dispute …
Northerners In Late Nineteenth Century Florida: Carpetbaggers Or Settlers?, Maurice M. Cance
Northerners In Late Nineteenth Century Florida: Carpetbaggers Or Settlers?, Maurice M. Cance
Florida Historical Quarterly
Interpretations, both popular and professional, of the influence of Northerners on the history of Florida have been characterized by two major concepts. Today the subject of northern immigration brings first to our minds the thought of the tourist and the settler, persons whose constructive roles in the development of the state need no affirmation. As we think of northern immigration in the late nineteenth century, however, our attitudes are colored by another label - that of the carpetbagger. The carpetbagger was of course a Yankee scoundrel up to no good, a corrupting element in southern society from the Old Dominion …
Contents Of Volume Xxxviii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxxviii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 38
Contributors, R. W. Patrick
Contributors, R. W. Patrick
Florida Historical Quarterly
This double numbered Pensacola Quadricentennial issue of the Quarterly was planned and edited by Julien C. Yonge. For thirty-one years, 1924-1955, Mr. Yonge edited the Florida Historical Quarterly. As Editor Emeritus, and in addition to his duties as Director of the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, he prepared an index to the first thirty-five volumes of the Quarterly. The Index, Volumes I-XXXV was published in 1958.
Early Churches Of Pensacola, Lelia Abercrombie
Early Churches Of Pensacola, Lelia Abercrombie
Florida Historical Quarterly
The church is certainly among the most important factors in the building of any city. Neither wealth nor a large population of themselves make a community a pleasant place in which to live; more important is an atmosphere of goodwill and kindness. To develop such an atmosphere the fundamental religious principles of the Church are needed.
Railroads Out Of Pensacola, 1833-1883, Charles H. Hildreth
Railroads Out Of Pensacola, 1833-1883, Charles H. Hildreth
Florida Historical Quarterly
The opening of the three-mile Quincy [Mass.] Railroad in 1827 marked a general change of emphasis in transportation in the United States. Visionaries suffering from “canal fever” discovered “railroad fever” to be an excellent antidote for the disease and one which allowed the mind to envision schemes not limited by the natural waterways of the nation. Florida, a part of the Union for slightly more than a decade, became the setting in 1833, for one of the most ambitious of these early plans.
Newspapers Of Pensacola, 1821-1900, Horance G. Davis, Jr.
Newspapers Of Pensacola, 1821-1900, Horance G. Davis, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Brigands, camp followers, speculators, gamblers and soldiers-of-fortune made Pensacola a gay city in 1821 as the populace, swelled to some 4,000, awaited the triumphant entry of the conquering hero, General Andrew Jackson. Florida, international pawn long coveted by the United States, was to be relinquished by Spain. Andrew Jackson and his troops had invaded the area twice since 1814, but diplomacy had foiled United States territorial ambitions. Now at last Florida was to be ceded to the United States, and provisional governor Andrew Jackson was expected momentarily at Pensacola, the seat of Florida government. Only Spanish loyalists viewed the gaiety …
Pensacola In Retrospect: 1870-1890, Occie Clubbs
Pensacola In Retrospect: 1870-1890, Occie Clubbs
Florida Historical Quarterly
The yellow pine was the backbone of the economy of the Pensacola region and the source of several individual fortunes during the decades of this article. As early as 1826 E. E. Simpson had constructed a water-mill at Woodbine to carry out his contract to furnish lumber for certain buildings at the Pensacola Navy Yard then under construction. In 1841 John Hunt built the first steam sawmill. Though both of these were in what is now Santa Rosa County, that area was Escambia County then, and Pensacola was headquarters and received the stimulus and financial benefit from their operations.
Battle Of Santa Rosa Island, J. L. Larkin
Battle Of Santa Rosa Island, J. L. Larkin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Presumably as an attempt to take Fort Pickens, though this was denied by the Confederates, an attack was made on the night of October 9 (1861) on the encampment of Federal troops on Santa Rosa Island east of the fort.
Pensacola In The War For Southern Independence, Julien C. Yonge
Pensacola In The War For Southern Independence, Julien C. Yonge
Florida Historical Quarterly
Patriotic ardor grew steadily in Pensacola during the latter part of 1860 and reached a height when Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861. Two companies of volunteers had already been organized there: the Pensacola Guards with A. H. Bright as captain, and the Rifle Rangers, Edward A. Perry, captain.
Ante-Bellum Pensacola: 1821-1860, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Ante-Bellum Pensacola: 1821-1860, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The morning sun over Pensacola on July 17, 1821, shone on a scene of historic pageantry not since repeated in Florida’s history. During the early hours of that day a full company of Spanish troops, dismounted dragoons of the regiment of Tarragona who were elegantly clad and equipped, paraded in the plaza before the Government House. A few miles away, through the flat piney woods, came elements of the Fourth United States Infantry and Fourth United States Artillery regiments with flags flying and band playing. At their heads rode the gaunt gray figure of Andrew Jackson. After almost two months …
Panton, Leslie, And Company, Indian Traders Of Pensacola And St. Augustine, J. A. Brown
Panton, Leslie, And Company, Indian Traders Of Pensacola And St. Augustine, J. A. Brown
Florida Historical Quarterly
The North American peace settlement of 1783 confirmed the Spanish in their reconquest of Pensacola and returned His Catholic Majesty’s banner to the bastions of the Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine; however, it did not end - but rather intensified - the struggle for the allegiance and trade of the 45,000 Indians on the Florida frontier. A new and dynamic United States, surging to the Mississippi, and from its Bahamas outpost a covetous England, intrigued with the savages to turn the Spanish out, and failing that, to divert to their own nationals and treasuries a part at least …
Pensacola During The Second Spanish Period, L. N. Mcalister
Pensacola During The Second Spanish Period, L. N. Mcalister
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the first day of January, 1777, an event in New Orleans was to have important consequences for the history of Pensacola: Bernardo de Galvez formally assumed the governorship of Louisiana. Galvez was typical of the colonial officials who were appointed during that Indian Summer of Spanish Imperial history, the reign of Charles III. A career officer in the royal armies, he had already distinguished himself in several theaters: first in Portugal, then in Mexico against the Indians on the northern frontier where, under his famous uncle Jose de Galvez, he displayed those traits of energy, initiative, and leadership which …