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Wreckers And Wrecking On The Florida Reef, 1829-1832, E. A. Hammond
Wreckers And Wrecking On The Florida Reef, 1829-1832, E. A. Hammond
Florida Historical Quarterly
Dr. Benjamin B. Strobel, Charleston physician, left his South Carolina home in September, 1829, to seek professional opportunity in Key West, Florida. What motivated his departure is never totally disclosed in his writings, nor does he indicate his reasons for choosing the comparative primitiveness of the Florida Keys. He reveals only that he “was some time in doubt as to what course I should steer, when, having heard that there was something in my profession at Key West, I determined at once to go there.” Nevertheless, upon arriving at the island town of some five hundred inhabitants just staggering through …
La Floride: 1565, James W. Covington
La Floride: 1565, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
The coming of the French Huguenots to Florida in 1564 and their establishment of an outpost known as Fort Caroline proved to be a remarkable event both for Spanish imperialism and the student of Indian customs and law. When the King of Spain learned that the French had invaded land which he considered to be his own and that renegade groups had raided nearby islands, he ordered Pedro Menendez de Aviles to organize a force and expel the invaders. Part of the contract signed by Menendez included the founding of two towns in Florida. Thus, when Menendez landed in Florida …
An Evaluation Of The Freedmen's Bureau In Florida, Joe M. Richardson
An Evaluation Of The Freedmen's Bureau In Florida, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Like any controversial subject, the Freedmen’s Bureau is difficult to evaluate. Nearly any generalization applied to that federal agency requires qualification. It possessed some undesirable features, but it had many redeeming traits and much of its work is deserving of commendation. Furthermore, the organization of the Bureau was flexible enough to enable it to adapt to and meet local needs. Therefore, its value in any locale depended to a large extent on the character and competency of the Assistant Commissioner and local agents. The Bureau officials in Florida were, in general, a creditable group and their accomplishments are worthy of …
James Ormond, Merchant And Soldier, Alice Strickland
James Ormond, Merchant And Soldier, Alice Strickland
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first member of the Ormond family to come to Florida was a Scotchman, James Ormond I, who owned and commanded an armed brig, the Somerset, which sailed in the services of the famous trading firm of Panton and Leslie. In the 1700’s James Ormond sailed the Somerset in the pirate-infested waters of the West Indies and between Savannah and present day Apalachicola. Later in life Ormond gave up seafaring and settled down on a cotton plantation on the island of Exuma in the West Indies. The invitation from the Spanish government for settlers to come to Florida, and the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 41, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
We continue in this issue the reminiscences of Florida begun in our January, 1962, number by the late Jane D. Brush of Michigan, widow of Alanson P. Brush, a pioneer of the automobile industry.
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Removal of FHS headquarters, local historical societies
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Short reviews and notes of books
The Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, May 3-5, 1962, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, May 3-5, 1962, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
President Gilbert L. Lycan presided over the meeting of officers and directors which was held May 3, 1962, at the Roosevelt Hotel, Jacksonville. The meeting was attended by Dr. Lycan, Duncan L. Clinch, H. J. Doherty, Jesse Keene, Mary McRae, Margaret Chapman, Paul L. Maddock, Rembert W. Patrick, Thelma Peters, Ben F. Rogers, Lucius Ruder, Frank B. Sessa, M. L. Vance, and T. T. Wentworth, Jr.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of James Monroe Smith Georgia Planter, Before Death and After. By E. Merton Coulter. (Athens: University of Georgia Press. xii, 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.); Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada. Edited by Richard W. Hale, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, for the American Historical Association, 1961. xxxvi, 241 pp. Bibliography and index. $5.00.)
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Colonial Records of South Carolina, Series I: Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, January 19, 1748-June 29, 1748. Edited by J. Harold Easterby. (Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1961. 413 pp. Preface and index. $11.00.); Georgia’s Journeys: Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia’s Original Settlers and Many Other Early Settlers from the Founding of the Colony in 1732 until the Institution of Royal Government in 1754. By Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1961. Pp. xviii, 348. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $6.00.); The Baratarians and the Battle of …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Richard Keith Call: Southern Unionist. By Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961. vii, 195 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $5.50.); Nuevas fuentes para la historia de Puerto Rico. By Aurelio Tio. (San German: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, 1961. 653 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography, charts, appendix, index.); The Pied Piper of Peru. By Henry Hanson. (Jacksonville: Florida Public Health Association, 1961. $2.00 cloth; $1.50 paper.); Glimpses of the Panhandle. By Harold W. Bell. (Chicago: Adams Press, 1961. 227 pp. Maps, bibliography. $3.50); The Secession Conventions of the South. By Ralph A. Wooster. (Princeton, N. J., …
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Florida: 1825, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Florida: 1825, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the early summer of 1825 the group of Seminoles relegated to the Big Swamp area of central Florida by the treaty of Moultrie Creek, signed two years before, were subjected to a drought so severe that nearly their whole crop was destroyed. Forced to subsist upon game, the Indians obtained permission from Major Gad Humphreys, their agent at the post that later became known as Fort King, to send hunting parties beyond the boundaries of their reservation to the north. While the incursion of Indian hunters into territories belonging legally to white settlers was absolutely necessary for the survival …
The Story Of Captain John C. Casey, Fred W. Wallace
The Story Of Captain John C. Casey, Fred W. Wallace
Florida Historical Quarterly
One link in the chain of off-shore islands extending from Anclote Key southward along Florida’s Gulf coast is Casey Key in Sarasota County. This little Key has more than its share of natural beauty and charm yet remains one of the least known islands. Although little is heard of Casey Key, except locally, for which the residents who value privacy are grateful, even more obscure is the origin of the name. One historian has written, “When and how Casey’s Pass was named no one knows. According to waterfront legend an Irishman named Casey settled there for a number of years …
Lincoln's Courier: John L. Worden's Mission To Fort Pickens, James P. Jones
Lincoln's Courier: John L. Worden's Mission To Fort Pickens, James P. Jones
Florida Historical Quarterly
The spring of 1861 was a time of decision-making for the newly installed Lincoln administration. First on the agenda was the reinforcement and supply of Ft. Sumter, but an equally grave problem involved Ft. Pickens in Pensacola harbor. For several months a truce arranged between two members of President Buchanan’s cabinet and Confederate military authorities had been in force. This truce was an agreement not to reinforce Pickens if the Confederates promised not to attack. By March, 1861, Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, and General Winfield Scott were growing concerned over the Pensacola situation. The Pickens garrison remained …
The Constitutional Convention Of 1885, Edward C. Williamson
The Constitutional Convention Of 1885, Edward C. Williamson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida in 1885 was a rural state, a long strip of relatively unoccupied frontier of the deep South. It sprawled from Pensacola to Key West with few farms or people south of Ocala. An inadequate system of transportation composed of sail and rail loosely tied the state together. Key West, its ties to Florida consisting of a few trading schooners, was the largest town. Counties large in area but small in population were in the south; those small in area but larger in population were in the north.
Memorial: Julien Chandler Yonge, Rembert W. Patrick
Memorial: Julien Chandler Yonge, Rembert W. Patrick
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the fall of 1892 a thirteen-year-old boy requested and received a copy of Campbell’s Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida. Beginning with Panfilo de Narvaez’s discovery of Pensacola Bay, the 284-page book traced the explorations of Hernando de Soto, described the ill-fated attempt of Tristan de Luna to found a colony at Pensacola, and detailed the eventual permanent settlement there. The author emphasized the British Period of Colonial Florida, overweighted the importance of Pensacola, and ended his narrative with the American occupation of the province.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 41, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Julien Chandler Yonge Memorial Endowment, college and university news, local historical societies
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
We continue in this number the reminiscences of Florida, begun in our January issue, by the late Jane D. Brush of Michigan. Mrs. Brush was the wife of Alanson P. Brush, a pioneer of the automobile industry.
Book Review: A Woman Rice Planter, Florida Historical Society
Book Review: A Woman Rice Planter, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of A Woman Rice Planter. By Patience Pennington. [pseud.] Edited by Cornelius O. Cathey. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. xxxiii, 446 pp. Illustrations. $6.00.)
A War Correspondent's View Of St. Augustine And Fernandina: 1863, P. J. Staudenraus
A War Correspondent's View Of St. Augustine And Fernandina: 1863, P. J. Staudenraus
Florida Historical Quarterly
Noah Brooks, born in Castine, Maine, in 1830, was an experienced newspaper man by the age of twenty-five. He worked for newspapers in Massachusetts, Illinois, and California before going to Washington, D. C., in December, 1862, as special correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union. During the three years Brooks lived in the national capital he became a personal friend of President Lincoln whom he first met in Illinois in 1856. Before Lincoln died he asked Brooks to be his personal secretary. Brooks’s visit to Union Army stations along the coast of South Carolina and Florida in June, 1863, was one …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The First South. By John Richard Alden. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1961. vii, 144 pp. Bibliography, index. $3.50); President James Buchanan: A Biography. By Philip Shriver Klein. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962. 506 pp. Illus., $7.50.); “Fortificaciones de la Florida [Fortifications of Florida].” By L. A. Vigneras. Anuario de Estudios Americanos (Seville), XVI (1959), 533-552.; From Shiloh to San Juan. By John P. Dyer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1961. Revised edition. 275 pp. Illustrations. $5.00); Guide to Materials on Latin America in the National Archives, Vol. I. By John P. Harrison. …
Florida Volunteers In The War With Spain, 1898, William Schellings
Florida Volunteers In The War With Spain, 1898, William Schellings
Florida Historical Quarterly
For many years the Spanish American War has been referred to as a “Splendid Little War.” John Hay first used the term to describe the war in a letter to his friend Theodore Roosevelt and Teddy, without doubt, fully agreed. Recently Professor Frank Freidel used the same words to title a book concerning that war. Perhaps many of the participants in the Second World War, or the Korean conflict, would also agree that the war with Spain was a comparatively splendid affair as wars go. Imagine a war in which there was no draft, and that was fought largely by …
The Blockade And Fall Of Apalachicola, 1861-1862, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.
The Blockade And Fall Of Apalachicola, 1861-1862, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
President Lincoln proclaimed the blockade of all Confederate ports on April 19, 1861. In order to make the blockade effective, the United States Navy was split into two squadrons: the Atlantic Squadron which was to guard the entire Atlantic coast as far south as Cape Florida; and the Gulf Squadron which was responsible for the vast Gulf coast, an area which extended from Cape Florida to the Mexican border. Early in 1862 the Gulf Squadron was divided again into a West Gulf Squadron and an East Gulf Squadron. The area guarded by the East Gulf Squadron extended from Cape Canaveral …
The English Invasion Of Spanish Florida, 1700-1706, Charles W. Arnade
The English Invasion Of Spanish Florida, 1700-1706, Charles W. Arnade
Florida Historical Quarterly
Though Florida had been discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513, not until 1565 did it become a Spanish province in fact. In that year Pedro Menendez de Aviles was able to establish a permanent capital which he called St. Augustine. Menendez and successive executives had plans to make St. Augustine a thriving metropolis ruling over a vast Spanish colony that might possibly be elevated to a viceroyalty. Nothing of this sort happened. By 1599 Florida was in desperate straits: Indians had rebelled and butchered the Franciscan missionaries, fire and flood had made life in St. Augustine miserable, English pirates …
The Irony Of Secession, Donal R. Hadd
The Irony Of Secession, Donal R. Hadd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States marked the beginning of active measures for separation in the state of Florida. Throughout the state mass meetings were held to protest the ascendancy of “Black Republicanism.” The term “secession” so truculently advanced by a militant minority since the Compromise of 1850 began to be advanced by an ever increasing number of Floridians inflamed by the spirit of the time.
Two Seminole Treaties: Payne's Landing, 1832, Ft. Gibson, 1833, John K. Mahon
Two Seminole Treaties: Payne's Landing, 1832, Ft. Gibson, 1833, John K. Mahon
Florida Historical Quarterly
The treaty of Moultrie Creek or Camp Moultrie, of 1823, quickly revealed more weaknesses than strengths. Conspicuous among them was the absence of any deadline date by which the Seminoles were expected to be within the boundaries of their reservation. Very shortly it became obvious that the Indians were dissatisfied with the treaty, did not want to move, and were in no hurry to do so. Even after months had passed, still only a few had entered the reservation.