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History And Archeology In Florida, John W. Griffin Mar 2021

History And Archeology In Florida, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

There was a time when archaeology was conceived of as the collection of relics and history was thought of as the study of names and dates. The two disciplines seemed far apart. Yet history and archaeology are very closely related. Both are concerned with “history” in the broader sense. Both study and seek to interpret unique events placed in time and space. The major difference lies in the techniques used. History gains most of its information through written documents, archaeology for the most part deals with times and groups which have no written records of their own, and is forced …


The Confederate Cabinet, Rembert W. Patrick Mar 2021

The Confederate Cabinet, Rembert W. Patrick

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. By Rembert W. Patrick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1944. 401 pp. $3.75.


Pioneer Florida: The First Railroads, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: The First Railroads, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Practical operation of railroads in the United States began in 1827, when the Quincy (Mass.) Rail Road, three miles in length, started operation in April or May. This was followed immediately by the opening of a nine mile line at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Soon afterwards preparations were made for the construction of several other lines of railroad, the longest and most important of which was the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. Much publicity was given the B & O, resulting in an increasing shift of transportation interest from canals to railroads generally. By the end of 1834, before Florida's first railroad …


Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson Mar 2021

Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Governor Melchor Feliu closed the extensive and complicated operation of evacuating Spanish residents from St. Augustine on February 5, 1764, he reported that in order to provide for looking after certain properties of the king, and to dispose of many horses running in the woods, he had left seven soldiers and an interpreter there. One of these was a militiaman, Luciano de Herrera, whose family had long been resident in the colony.


The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd Mar 2021

The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first flag of the State of Florida was flown for the first and, so far as is known, for the last time on June 25, 1845. The raising of the state and national banners, closing the ceremonies marking the inauguration of William D. Moseley as first governor of the State of Florida, on the east portico of the recently completed capitol, was accompanied by a twenty-eight-gun salute. The band then played "Yankee Doodle."


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765-1843), Philip S. May Mar 2021

Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765-1843), Philip S. May

Florida Historical Quarterly

After extensive travels and successful commercial operations in the British Isles, Africa, the West Indies, and North and South America, Zephaniah Kingsley, at the age of thirty-eight, brought to Florida in 1803 his unusual menage and here lived out the remaining forty years of an active, colorful life. During this period while Florida was first a Spanish colony and then a territory of the United States, he had a prominent part in its commercial and political affairs.


Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Members Of The Florida Historical Society, 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

No abstract provided.


Reviews And Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Reviews And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The History of Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas; The Province of Carolina on the Coasts of Floreda; Negroes in the Seminole War; The Trail of the Florida Circuit Rider; The P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History


The Conservation Of Historic Sites In Florida, C. R. Vinten Mar 2021

The Conservation Of Historic Sites In Florida, C. R. Vinten

Florida Historical Quarterly

In past years I have noted with great interest the concern expressed by members of the Florida Historical Society for the protection of the historical and archeological relics which still exist in Florida. In listing these accounts of strange archeological sites and of interesting historical areas, I have always asked myself the question, “What can be done to save the most valuable of these sites so that they will not have to share the fate of many which have been wantonly destroyed?” I believe we will all agree that these historical and archeological relics, which have been passed down to …


Pioneer Florida: Sidelights On Early American St. Augustine, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: Sidelights On Early American St. Augustine, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Change of Flags, as it is called, designating the official transfer of East Florida from Spain to the United States under the treaty of cession, took place at St. Augustine July 10, 1821.


Material In The National Archives Relating To Florida. 1789-1870, Elizabeth B. Drewry Mar 2021

Material In The National Archives Relating To Florida. 1789-1870, Elizabeth B. Drewry

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the time of the first meetings of the First Continental Congress in 1774, when steps were taken to record the actions of the Congress, there has been an almost continuous agitation for an appreciation of the historical importance of the official records of the United States Government. As the years went by and valuable documents were damaged and lost through fire, inadequate space, neglect and ill-use, the feeling became more widespread that the records of our Government’s activities deserved a better fate than they were receiving. Periodically proposals were made for adequate housing and centralized control. It was not, …


The Beginnings Of Printing In Florida, Douglas C. Mcmurtrie Mar 2021

The Beginnings Of Printing In Florida, Douglas C. Mcmurtrie

Florida Historical Quarterly

Printing came to Florida not as a result of natural expansion with a gradually increasing necessity for a press, nor for the purpose of Christianizing the Indians as was the case in some other areas; printing was introduced there as a result of war conditions outside the province. Florida had passed from Spanish to English hands in 1763 and had remained true to England throughout the Revolution, offering a haven for Tory refugees from the colonies to the north. In 1782 there was a great influx of loyalist Georgians, and later in the year, with the withdrawal of British troops …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 2. 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 Report of the President, Report of the Treasurer, Librarian's Report, Director's Meeting, and new members


The Southern Brigade, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat Mar 2021

The Southern Brigade, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

From The Journal of Southern History: The British colonies of East and West Florida differed from their thirteen cousins in so many ways, as evidenced especially in the outcome of the American Revolution, that their close relationship to the thirteen in the mind of the British government is seldom realized. For two decades they were an integral part and the important left flank of the British empire in America, without the possession and security of which, as any military man will hold, it were unwise to advance.


Pioneer Florida: The Beginning Of Tampa, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: The Beginning Of Tampa, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

General Andrew Jackson was responsible for the failure of the first purposed community settlement of whites in the Tampa region. It came about in this way: General Gregor MacGregor, a Scotchman, who had been associated with Bolivar in the South American revolutions, conceived the idea of also liberating the Floridas from Spanish rule. In 1817, he collected a force recruited largely from adventurers hanging loose upon the society of the United States, made a descent upon the island of Amelia in northeast Florida and captured it in June, 1817. He held on for several months, when, his situation becoming precarious …


The Tallahassee Historical Society's "Apalachee", Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Tallahassee Historical Society's "Apalachee", Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Tallahassee Historical Society has long been one of the most active local historical associations in Florida. Program meetings are held during each winter at which carefully prepared papers are read, many of them having been written after extensive research. Several of these papers have been published in this Quarterly, and a much larger number were selected and published at intervals as The Annual of the Tallahassee Historical Society in 1934, 1935, 1937 and 1939. These are mimeographed volumes of sixty to one hundred twenty pages.


The Tribulations Of Denys Rolle, Charles L. Mowat Mar 2021

The Tribulations Of Denys Rolle, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the brief and generally uneventful history of British East Florida greatest interest has, perhaps, attached to the two unusual experiments in colonization which were carried on in the province at New Smyrna and Rollestown. The history of both has been told by Carita Doggett Corse, 1 and to her work there is little to add. It is, however, possible to give some new light on the early difficulties which Denys Rolle met with in his attempts to establish his colony.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


The Neon Bible, From Page To Screen: John Kennedy Toole’S Portrait Of Small-Town Southern Life, Heather Duerre Humann Mar 2021

The Neon Bible, From Page To Screen: John Kennedy Toole’S Portrait Of Small-Town Southern Life, Heather Duerre Humann

Study the South

Louisiana-born writer John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) represents the South in such a way that stereotypes about the region are brought to bear, he also uses his novels -- his short novel, The Neon Bible (1989), and in his better-known tragicomic novel, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) -- to question the culture of the South. In this manner, Toole offers a multifaceted portrait of the region while also raising questions about the nature of representation.


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Names Of Liberty Ships., Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Names Of Liberty Ships., Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Library, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Library, 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

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Mowat, “Florida’s First Publicity Campaign.’’; Hanna, ‘‘Frederick Delius in Florida.’’


The Spring Grove Guards, Samuel E. Cobb Mar 2021

The Spring Grove Guards, Samuel E. Cobb

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was in the spring of 1835, a few months before the actual commencement of that long, harrassing conflict between the Indians of Florida and the whites. Pioneer settlers in Florida had been subject to sporadic attacks by the Indians for many months. A few lives had been lost but, at this time, the conflict between the Indians, who claimed prior possession of the country, and the whites, who claimed ownership under the treaties of 1823 and 1832 had hardly reached a state of warfare.


Pioneer Florida: A Free Public School In St. Augustine, 1832, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: A Free Public School In St. Augustine, 1832, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is an account of the first public school, under the American system of support by property taxation, established in Florida after it became a possession of the United States by transfer from Spain in 1821. The school was opened in St. Augustine in 1832, and these facts concerning it are derived largely from the contemporaneous St. Augustine Florida Herald, copies of which are in the Library of Congress. Apparently there are no extant official records of the establishment of this school, and it seems to be unknown to writers on Florida’s early educational movements. Therefore, the ordinances concerning the …


The Wrecking Business On The Florida Reef, 1822-1860, Dorothy Dodd Mar 2021

The Wrecking Business On The Florida Reef, 1822-1860, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Gulf of Mexico is a great inland sea with two outlets, the Canal de Yucatan between Yucatan and Cuba, and the Straits of Florida between Cuba and Florida. Because of the adverse winds and currents that prevail in the former for eight months of the year, and especially that part of the year when the great ante-bellum cotton crop was moved to market, sailing ships never attempted to make the outward passage through the Yucatan Pass. Consequently, the commerce of the western ports, of New Orleans and Galveston, Apalachicola and Mobile, passed through the Florida Straits. Likewise, shipping from …