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The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes information on the annual meeting, a membership drive, members, and accessions to the library
Florida Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Florida Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Historical Association of Southern Florida, Jacksonville Historical Society, The St. Augustine Historical Society
Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida, 1862-1868 Part Ii, George Winston Smith
Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida, 1862-1868 Part Ii, George Winston Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
Before the Florida Direct Tax Commissioners couId hope to make extensive tax assessments and sales of “rebel”property in Florida, further military operations were essential in the Jacksonville area. Nevertheless, Fernandina and St. Augustine already were in possession of the Union forces, and Stickney could see before him a limited entree to southern wealth. Before he made a leisurely journey southward at the end of 1862, he quietly began to make preparations.
John Westcott’S Plan For Public Education In Florida, 1844, Nita Katharine Pyburn
John Westcott’S Plan For Public Education In Florida, 1844, Nita Katharine Pyburn
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1843 the Legislative Council of Florida passed two acts pertaining to education ; one providing that “the sheriff of the several counties . . . be Commissioners of school’lands in their respective counties.” Each was to rent or lease the land and retain ten percent as commission. The remainder of the proceeds was to be paid to the county treasurer at the beginning of the year. The county court was to appropriate the fun.ds thus accruing “to the education of the poor children of the County in which such land was situated.“l In 1844 another act was passed which …
A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet
A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet
Florida Historical Quarterly
Olustee was the most important battle of the War for Southern Independence in Florida. While the Union army under Brigadier General Truman Seymour was not “completely defeated, with . . . utter rout," it was a severe setback in the plan of the administration for separating Florida from the Confederacy. If the effort had been successful, the political and economic results would have been serious for the South.
William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson
William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson
Florida Historical Quarterly
If any contemporaries of William D. Bloxham (1835-1911) made any inquiries concerning the family background of Florida’s two-term governor, they left no record of his ancestry. As the son of a Leon county planter, born and reared in the heart of the political scene in Florida, his presence required no explanation. The War for Southern Independence, and then Reconstruction, of epic importance, engrossed men’s thoughts. Even Bloxham’s activity in statecraft was sufficiently important and picturesque to focus journalistic attention upon the man’s achievements almost to the exclusion of his earlier background.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 27, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 27, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes information on the directors' meeting and accessions to the library
Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith
Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
The great Civil War battlefields were far from Florida. Compared with the Wilderness campaign, the bloody slaughter of Pittsburg Landing or other major conflicts, even Olustee was a minor battle on the margin of the war. Yet in addition to keeping Florida in the Confederacy, it and other lesser encounters revealed social forces which were destined to alter the fabric of Florida’s society, and radically influence the future, of all the South. For with the occupying forces of the Union army came political and economic adventurers, the successors of a few earlier Yankee pioneers in Florida, and the predecessors of …
Independentism: A Challenge To The Florida Democracy Of 1884, Edward C. Williamson
Independentism: A Challenge To The Florida Democracy Of 1884, Edward C. Williamson
Florida Historical Quarterly
After 1876 the Florida Republican party slowly dwindled away, for awhile holding its own in the coastal cities and a few counties of the so called “Black Belt." The Bourbon Democrats were in the saddle, pulling the wires and plucking what political plums there were. Confederate war veterans dominated the scene, causing frustration to many a younger Democratic politician. Therefore, it was not surprising that the election of 1884 saw a new party in the selection of candidates for state offices.
Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd
Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the year 1850, Tallahassee, through its city government, took the first faltering steps which led later in the decade to the organization of a stable school system. Before that year, as was told in Part I of this article, parents had depended for the education of their children on private schools and on two corporate institutions, Leon Academy and Leon Female Academy. The former, constantly in financial straits, was barely kept alive through the years from 1827 to 1840. The Female Academy, begun in 1844, continued as an independent school until 1858. Thus the story of boys’ education before …
Enumeration Of The Florida Spanish Missions In 1675, Mark F. Boyd
Enumeration Of The Florida Spanish Missions In 1675, Mark F. Boyd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The instances when either the Spanish civil or ecclesiastical colonial authorities submitted enumerations of the mission establishments in Florida appear to have been infrequent and irregular. It is consequently somewhat surprising that two lists are available for the year 1675. The first of these to attract attention was the list incorporated in an undated letter written to the Queen of Spain by Bishop Gabriel Diaz Vara Calderon of Cuba, which was presented in translation by Lucy L. Wenhold (1936). The bishop paid an extensive pastoral visit to Florida in 1674-75, remaining for eight months, during which he appears to have …
Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose
Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose
Florida Historical Quarterly
After much research on the subject, this writer believes that no person worked with more devotion and energy for the introduction of tropical agricultural plants into the United States in the second quarter of the nineteenth century than did Dr. Henry Perrine. His was the foremost pioneering in agriculture for the development of the newly-acquired Territory of Florida. Perrine’s work came when a need was felt for new crops to diversify and bolster the agriculture of the South before effective assistance was given the states and before the Federal Congress had bureaucratized this work in 1839 with its first appropriation …
Local History, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes information on the drive for new members and accessions to the library
Local Historical Societies Of Florida, Florida Historical Society
Local Historical Societies Of Florida, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Jacksonville Historical Society, The Historical Association of Southern Florida, St. Augustine Historical Society, Tallahassee Historical Society
Archaeology In Florida: A Report On The Goodnow Mound, Florida Historical Society
Archaeology In Florida: A Report On The Goodnow Mound, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Though we call archaeology “pre-history,” so much has been learned about the former inhabitants of the land we might almost omit the prefix. This is not nearly so true of Florida aborigines as it is of many other parts of the country; and what has been accomplished here has been done by scientists from outside the State: Moore, Wyman, Stirling, Hrdlicka, Fewkes, Willey and others. Recently two of our own young men have been avidly following an urge which must have been congenital by digging into the history before history of the peninsula. These are John W. Griffin of Daytona …
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades, by Alfred Jackson Hanna and Kathryn Abbey Hanna. (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. 379 pp. $4.00), and Lakanal, the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal, by John Charles Dawson. University of Alabama Press, 1948. (215 p. $5.00)
Spanish Relief Policy And The East Florida Refugees Of 1763, Duvon C. Corbitt
Spanish Relief Policy And The East Florida Refugees Of 1763, Duvon C. Corbitt
Florida Historical Quarterly
So runs the pious ejeculation scrawled across the front page of the bundle of documents in the Archivo Nacional de Cuba concerned with pensions to wives, widows and daughters of the Floridians who chose to follow the retreating Spanish flag in 1763 and 1764. 1 It is not surprising that the Havanese officials called for help from on high when they found themselves confronted with the feeding and housing of the whole population of East Florida after the cession of that province to Great Britain by the Peace of Paris. Fortunately the total of that population scarcely exceeded three thousand …
Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash
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.
Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel
Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel
Florida Historical Quarterly
The career of General Robert E. Lee is so overwhelmingly associated with the valleys of Virginia and the great and decisive battles of the Civil War that his very real personal interest in Florida and the fact that as one of the commission of United States Army officers in 1849 he made a detailed and personal examination of the entire coast line of Florida from Pensacola to Jacksonville and Fernandina, has been largely obscured. During this tour of inspection as secretary of the commission, he recorded the results of the examination of every bay, river mouth of any importance, or …
Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd
Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The school problems of early Tallahassee, after a long process of trial and error, were finally solved by the establishment, on January 1, 1857, of the West Florida Seminary. Though the Seminary was nominally a State institution, actually for many years nearly all of its students were from Tallahassee and vicinity, and it was to all intents and purposes a Tallahassee school. With its location in the town, citizens were at last assured of a permanent means of educating their sons, and a little later, their daughters also. Until this fortunate event, Tallahassee, like the other towns of the Territory …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 27, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 27
The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes minutes, report of the treasurer, membership report, and accessions to the library
Currency And Banking In Florida, Florida Historical Society
Currency And Banking In Florida, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No full research and writing has been done on this subject. Many years ago Professor David Y. Thomas, from the scant materials available to him, completed a study of nearly two hundred pages which was never published. Manuscript copies are available in certain Florida historical libraries.
A New Collier County Map, John M. Goggin
A New Collier County Map, John M. Goggin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Maps are not generally reviewed, but one currently published is of such interest that it should be noted. This is the Map of Collier County, Florida, computed and mapped under the direction of D. Graham Copeland, and published in April 1947 as an official county map for general use.
The Siege Of St. Augustine In 1702: A Report To The King Of Spain By The Governor Of East Florida, Mark F. Boyd
The Siege Of St. Augustine In 1702: A Report To The King Of Spain By The Governor Of East Florida, Mark F. Boyd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The QUARTERLY is under obligation to the Florida Park Service for this contribution. Mr. Lewis G. Scoggin, Park Director, writes: “This translation is the work of Dr. Mark F. Boyd, Historian of the Florida Park Service, and is offered as a contribution by the Park Service to the Florida Historical Society, for publication in the Florida Historical Quarterly.” Dr. Boyd wishes to acknowledge his obligation to Dr. Irving A. Leonard, Head of the Department of Romance Lauguages, the University of Michigan, for his criticism of the translation and suggestions in relation thereto. This report, Zuniga to the King, January 6, …
Comte De Castelnau In Middle Florida, 1837-1838, Arthur R. Seymour
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.