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The Everglades Before Reclamation, J. E. Dovell Mar 2021

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 The full story of the Everglades including reclamation is the subject of an unpublished dissertation by the author which was accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of North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.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 26, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xxvi, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxvi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 26


President Boyd And Other Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

President Boyd And Other Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes donations to the library, new members, and contributors


The Florida Historical Society: Report Of The Long-Range Committee, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: Report Of The Long-Range Committee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Historical Association of Southern Florida, The Jacksonville Historical Society


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A Soldier’S View Of The Seminole War: Three Letters Of James B. Dallam, William D. Hoyt, Jr. Mar 2021

A Soldier’S View Of The Seminole War: Three Letters Of James B. Dallam, William D. Hoyt, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Three letters from James B. Dallam, a soldier in the United States Army engaged in the war with the Seminole Indians, provide an interesting view of conditions in Florida in 1838-39 and of the progress of operations there during a lull in the fighting. 1 Written from three different posts-Fort Harllee, Fort Clinch, and Tampa Bay-the epistles describe events over a period of six months and refer hopefully to the prospects of peace. Sandwiched between accounts of negotiations with the Indians are accounts of the country itself, with considerable praise for the healthy climate and fine soil, and also the …


W. D. Chipley, West Florida’S Mr. Railroad, Edmund C. Williamson Mar 2021

W. D. Chipley, West Florida’S Mr. Railroad, Edmund C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The man referred to was William Dudley Chipley of Pensacola, builder of the railroad from Pensacola to Chattahoochee and the Apalachicola river. Chipley was fast becoming one of the leading political figures in the state, and needless to say, he was on the other side of the fence both in local and state politics from the Pensacola Commercial which called him “Major Octopus.”


Florida History (1650-1750) In The Spanish Records Of North Carolina State Department Of Archives And History, Albert C. Manucy Mar 2021

Florida History (1650-1750) In The Spanish Records Of North Carolina State Department Of Archives And History, Albert C. Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the pirate’s bullet lodged in Captain Arguelles’ leg one fine spring day (March 30, 1683), that painful detail was faithfully written down-not once, but several times and in several different ways. Consequently, although the brave captain was wounded almost three centuries ago, today’s historian can be certain the accident was not hearsay: it actually happened. He knows exactly where it took place, and when; and further, he has a good idea of how the whole affair came about.


Stephen Russell Mallory Part Ii, Occie Clubbs Mar 2021

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.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 25, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes new members, deceased members, donations to the library, and contributors


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Overviews of the Jacksonvilee Historical Society and the Madison Historical Society


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes reviews of A Prince in their Midst: The Adventurous Life of Achille Murat on the American Frontier. By A. J. Hanna (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1946. pp. xi, 275, illustrations, bibliography. $3.00), and Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal or God’s Protecting Providence. Being the Narrative of a Journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia between August 23, 1696 and April 1, 1697. Edited by Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews. (Yale Historical Publications, Manuscripts and Edited Texts, XIX.) New Haven, Yale University Press, 1945. pp. x, 252, illustrations and maps. $3.00


Obituary: Thomas Frederick Davis, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Obituary: Thomas Frederick Davis, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Thomas Frederick Davis died on October 17 last. For many years there have not been many of his days in which Florida history did not claim at least an hour or two. His research was a continual search for the truth, not an effort to write history as he wished it to be. Only when the evidence seemed indisputable did he suggest his conclusions; more often he spread the result of his research before the reader and left it for each one to draw his own conclusions.


All Governors Of Territorial Florida Had Been Members Of Congress, James B. Whitfield Mar 2021

All Governors Of Territorial Florida Had Been Members Of Congress, James B. Whitfield

Florida Historical Quarterly

A list of Florida governors who also served as members of Congress


Henry Morrison Flagler, S. Walter Martin Mar 2021

Henry Morrison Flagler, S. Walter Martin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The German Palatinate produced the ancestors of Henry Morrison Flagler, American oil magnate, railroad builder and developer. The Fleglers (as the name was then spelled) left the Palatinate in 1688 as a result of the devastating wars of Louis XIV, and went to Holland for safety. Among the family was one Zacharra Flegler, who strayed away from Holland to England, and worked for several years in Walworth as a carpenter, among other Palatines who had fled their native home. Life offered little in England as compared to the stories he had heard concerning America, so he left Walworth early in …


Captain Bunce’S Tampa Bay Fisheries, Dorothy Dodd Mar 2021

Captain Bunce’S Tampa Bay Fisheries, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The known facts about William Bunce can be stated briefly. He was a sea captain from Baltimore, who engaged in the mercantile business at Key West from August, 1824, until 1829. In 1832 he was listed as a customs inspector in the Key West District. 3 In the same year he commanded the small sloop Associate, out of Key West, in which George W. Murray, W. R. Hackley, and P. B. Prior visited Carlos bay and Charlotte Harbor to locate a site for a settlement on the Allagon Grant. Bunce’s activities on the coast of southwest Florida naturally made him …


Stephen Russell Mallory, Occie Clubbs Mar 2021

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 …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 25, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Include meeting mintues and library accessions


Ponce De Leon, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Ponce De Leon, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

We in Florida have a niche in our history which Ponce de León shares with no one. It might be that other Europeans saw our shore before he did, but for us it was he who discovered Florida and certainly he gave us our name. We believe that our land is a fountain of youth, but we will always hope against odds that in the vast store of records of his period preserved in Spain some hint from Ponce may yet come to light that when he set out on his quest of new lands and gold, there was, too, …


Some Military Affairs In Territorial Florida, Albert C. Manucy Mar 2021

Some Military Affairs In Territorial Florida, Albert C. Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the red and gold banner of Spain was unfurled over the Castillo at St. Augustine on Tuesday morning, July 10, 1821, the Castillo guns roared a salute. Later in the day the cannon fired again, and the 23-star flag of the United States was hoisted above the ramparts beside the Spanish banner. U. S. troops formed near the Castillo. Again the guns thundered, and as the echoes died away, Spain’s flag came slowly down. A detachment from the American force marched over the drawbridge into the Castillo, where the drums beat the change of guard.


The City Of Wreckers: Two Key West Letters Of 1838, Kenneth Scott Mar 2021

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.


The Alagon, Punon Rostro, And Vargas Grants, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

The Alagon, Punon Rostro, And Vargas Grants, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the year 1803, when public attention was directed to the question of our right of deposit at New Orleans, the United States House of Representatives appointed a committee to report upon certain matters, including the advisability of annexing Spanish East and West Florida to the United States. The report of this committee concluded: “If we look forward to the free use of the Mississippi, the Mobile, the Apalachicola, and the other rivers of the west, by ourselves and our posterity, New-Orleans and the Floridas must become a part of the U. States, either by purchase or by conquest.” This …


Theatrical Entertainment In Early Florida, William G. Dodd Mar 2021

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.