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History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Calls for Papers, Events, Awards, Contributions, Editor's Note, Minutes of the Florida Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lynn Willoughby, Flowing Through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River, by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by Larry E. River; Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Shirley A. Leckie; Cynthia A. Kierner, Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835, by Elizabeth Nybakkan; Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, by Stacey K. Close; John G. Crowley, Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present, by John J. Guthrie Jr.; Edward A. Pearson, ed., Designs Against Charleston: …


Highways To Heaven Or Roads To Ruin, Evan P. Bennett Mar 2022

Highways To Heaven Or Roads To Ruin, Evan P. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

In December 1949, Ray Strong of Windsor, Canada, came to Starke, Florida, by chance. He had traveled to the Sunshine State to find property to build a motor court, but he missed his appointment in Lake City and, to "kill time," drove to Jacksonville. On his way back to Lake City Strong decided to tak a long route through Starke. He "liked the looks of the town," and, two months later, Strong's El Rancho Motel-"modern in every respect"-opened for business on US Highway 301, one mile south of Starke. The El Rancho was not the only motel built near Starke …


Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston Mar 2022

Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1940, Cairo's Al-Ahram observed that Volusia County lawyer and American diplomat Bert Fish had "gained the love of Egyptians for his frankness and ability to become the friend of Egyptians, and because of his great love for Egypt he is proud to call himself 'half-Egyptian'"-strange praise for a man of humble origins who began in the courtrooms of central Florida, rose to prominence in the state supreme court and the national Democratic Party, and eventually became a significant member of America's diplomatic corp. Indead, few early twentieth century Volusia County residents achieved the level of distinction enjoyed by DeLand …


A Muddy Water Warrior's Manual, R. Black Dunnavent Mar 2022

A Muddy Water Warrior's Manual, R. Black Dunnavent

Florida Historical Quarterly

After days of tedious excursions in the miserable humidity of Florida's Everglades, Lieutenant John T. McLaughlin decided to return his disabled and sick to their island base. The sailors, now several years into the Second Seminole War, had become physically overwhelmed by the wet condition, biting insects, and swamplife around them. Moving through terrain typified by "continuou portage over stump and cypress knees with occasional glimpses of open water," the healthier of McLaughlin's men continued their assignment, paddling their small canoes to search out sign of enemy activity. Excitement arose as three canoes were discovered concealed in the undergrowth, but …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 78, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Exhibits and Tours, Public Lectures, Editor's Notes


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Confronted by the announcement of 'JFK: The Exhibition" my first thought was how could there be a major traveling museum exhibit on this President and his brief administration? How could such an exhibit possibly satisfy any critic or any student of history? If, however, we accept the premise that such an exhibit is possible, then what would, should, or could it include? What might be its themes, its areas of focus?


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

James J. Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by Bruce R. Stephenson; Elizabeth Riegler MacManus and Susan A. MacManus, Citrus, Sawmills, Critters, Crackers: Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County, by Charle W. Arnade; Victor Andres Triay, Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program, by William Marina; William P. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, by Meaghan N. Duff; Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Clayton E. Jewett; Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers, by Canter Brown Jr.; James …


"There Were Two Job In St. Joe Paper Company, White Job And A Black Job": The Struggle For Civil Rights In A North Florida Paper Mill Community, 1938-1990, Timothy J. Minchin Mar 2022

"There Were Two Job In St. Joe Paper Company, White Job And A Black Job": The Struggle For Civil Rights In A North Florida Paper Mill Community, 1938-1990, Timothy J. Minchin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1938, construction was completed on a paper mill located on a reef in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's panhandle coast. The opening of St. Joe Paper Company was a reflection of the expansion that the American paper industry made into the South in the 1930. The decade saw the establishment of many major paper mills in the region, including several International Paper Company mills and the opening of the huge Union Bag mill in Savannah, Georgia. Much of the expansion took place in northern Florida. Headed by the establishment of a large mill by International Paper Company at …


Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial Mar 2022

Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial

Florida Historical Quarterly

Disney World may reign as Florida's most dazzling connection to the world of animated cartoons, but long before Disney there was Fleischer. Thirty-five year before Walt Disney packed Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck off to central Florida, his biggest competitor, Max and Dave Fleischer, built their own magic kingdom a couple of hundred miles farther south.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 78, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


A Choctaw Academy Education, Ella Wells Drake Mar 2022

A Choctaw Academy Education, Ella Wells Drake

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ten weary travelers from Florida-eight Apalachicola Indian boys, an agent, and a servant-paused in the chill a Choctaw Academy came into view. The Indian school, standing on an elvated ridgetop overlooking the Kentucky countryside, appeared imposing. The Academy represented an institution of promise and potential, a school where young Indian boys could acquire the English language and Anglo-American values and custom for tribal benefit. In 1830, ninety-eight boys attended the Academy which, despite the name, was an intertribal school. Choctaws, Creeks, Potawatomies, Miamies, and Quapaws directed their education funds and promising students to Choctaw Academy. On Christmas Day, the eight …


Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1999 Annual Meeting Florida Historical Society


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers/Conferences, Essay Competition, Exhibits and Tours, Honors and Awards, Samuel Proctor Oral History Prize


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Come to my Sunland": Lettes of Julia Daniels Moseley From the Florida Frontier, 1882-1886, edited by Julia Winifred Moseley and Better Powers Crislip, reviewed by James M. Denham; Strangers in Paradise: Impace and Management of Non-indigenous Species in Florida, edited by Daniel Simberloff, Don C. Schmitz, and Tom C. Brown, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, by Patsy West, review by Patricia R. Wickman; Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, by Miles H. Davidson, reviewed by Jerry H. Bentley; "Fear God and Walk Humbly": The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877, edit …


Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble Mar 2022

Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the history of American continental and overseas expansion, sometimes the lone hunter and trapper went first, or the isolated farmer. Other timese the missionary or the businessman or the railroad line arrived in advance of settler. However, sometimes the navy or the army preceded settlement and occasionally even preceded the legal possession of the territory. Military forts have played a role in the settlement of many American frontier, but on scarcely any frontier did forts play such a pervasive and significant role as they did in Florida. The United States Army preceded settlement into most sections of the territory. …


Ancote Keys Lighthouse: Guiding Light To Safe Anchorage, Geoffrey Mohlman Mar 2022

Ancote Keys Lighthouse: Guiding Light To Safe Anchorage, Geoffrey Mohlman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lighthouse. The term conjures mixed images--from the romantic to the horrific--of solitude, dense fog, blood-thirsty ghosts seeking revent, gold-hungry pirates, reliability, safety, kissing lovers silhouetted by a beautiful sunset, or of a light keeping fighting the frigid raging waters of the North Atlantic in a seemingly futile attempt to save a shipwrecked damsel. Thanks to films such as John Carpenter's The Fog or Steve Sekely's 1963 science fiction classic Day of the Triffids, many of these visions persists in the American imagination. Although the noted lighthouse historian Francis Ross Holland Jr. asked forgiveness "for puncturing a few balloons of [lighthouse] …


Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle Mar 2022

Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1819 John Miller of Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, published the Narrative of a Voyage to the Spanish Main in the Ship "Two Friends" for an anonymous author, a young Englishman.1 The author, calling himself the "Narrator," recounted his earlier voyage to Madeira Island, the Dutch island of St. Thomas, and Spanish East Florida. The Narrative paints a revealing portrait of northeast Florida during the waning years of the Second Spanish Period. In his introduction to the 1978 republication of the Narrative John W. Griffin posed two candidates, both named John Miller, for authorship; however, he concluded "[w]ithal the author …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 78, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes Florida Historical Society Boards of Directors Meeting


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE APALACHEE INDlANS AND MISSION SAN LUIS, by John H. Hann, reviewed by Ronald Wayne Childers; FLORIDA'S BLACK PUBLIC OFFICIALS, 1867-1924, by Canter Brown Jr., reviewed by Joe M. Richardson, BLACK MlAMI IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Manvin Dunn, reviewed by Paul S. George IMAGINING MIAMI: ETHNIC POLITICS IN A POSTMODERN WORLD, by Sheila L. Croucher, reviewed by William Marina; THE PACESETTER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF CARL G. FISHER, CREATOR OF THE INDY 500, MlAMI BEACH & THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, by Jerry M. Fisher, reviewed by Paul S. George; THE COMPLETE COLONIAL GENTLEMAN: CULTURAL LEGITIMACY IN PLANTATION AMERICA, by Michael …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Exhibits and Tours, Final Publications, Research in Progress, In Memoriam,


Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeaology, geography, political science, and anthropology published in state, regionals, and national periodicals in 1998. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida HIstorical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.


Cloak And Dagger In Apalachicole Province In Early 1686, John H. Hann Mar 2022

Cloak And Dagger In Apalachicole Province In Early 1686, John H. Hann

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stories of espionage awake a certain interest by their very nature. The ones presented here provide the bonus of valuable insights into life in Apalachee and along the Chattahoochee River in 1685-86 in the wake of the arrivial of the first Englishmen in the settlements on that river. It was a turning point in the history of the peoples of those two regions. The spies were Yamasee whom Apalachee's deputy-governor left behind when he ended his second invasion of the Chattahoochee River towns early in 1686. Reports that British traders from the recently founded outpost of Charles Town were in …


The 1960 And 1964 Jacksonville Riots, Abel A. Bartley Mar 2022

The 1960 And 1964 Jacksonville Riots, Abel A. Bartley

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the 1950 ended and a new decade began, leaders of the civil rights movement grew impatient. Nearly six year had passed since the United State Supreme Court had laid the foundation for ending segregation. Nevertheless, for African Americans little had changed. Blacks continued to languish at the bottom of American society, systematically denied the legal protection afforded to even America's newest immigrants. Forced to endure second-rate educational and social services, southern blacks increased the pressure on policy makers.


The Florida Baptist Convention And Desegregation, Mark Newman Mar 2022

The Florida Baptist Convention And Desegregation, Mark Newman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although the state's malapportioned Iegislature enabled defiant hard-line segregationists in rural north Florida to dominate the General Assembly until the late 1960s, Florida' governors pursued a moderate policy of tokenism and minimal compliance with federal desegregation initiatives in the late 1950s and 1960s. The Florida Baptist Convention, representing the largest white Protestant denomination in the state with 400,000 members, did not condemn Jim Crow until the mid-1960s, but by appealing to the primary commitments Southern Baptists held to law and order, peace, public education, and missions, it encouraged them to accept desegregation. Most Southern Baptist preferred segregation and some imbued …


Missiles As Artifacts: The Creation Of The Air Force Space And Missile Museum, Gordon Patterson Mar 2022

Missiles As Artifacts: The Creation Of The Air Force Space And Missile Museum, Gordon Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

On November 18, 1963, Major General Leighton I. Davis, commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC), ordered his director of administrative services to form a committee of officers "for the purpose of providing guidance and assistance in the establishment of an Air Force Space Museum to be located at Cape Canaveral."1 Davis named General Harry Sands the committee's chairman, Major Robert White, who headed the AFMTC's Community Relations Office, was chosen to serve as the project manager for the proposed space museums. Seven years elapsed before the Air Force Space and Missile Museum received its official dedication. The …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 78, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents