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Tallahassee Before The War, F. A. Hendry Nov 2020

Tallahassee Before The War, F. A. Hendry

Florida Historical Quarterly

Extract from an article in The (Tallahassee) True Democrat.


Jacksonville, Fifty-Three Years Ago, Otis L. Keene Nov 2020

Jacksonville, Fifty-Three Years Ago, Otis L. Keene

Florida Historical Quarterly

A city of less than two thousand population, with quite broad and regular streets, and unlike those of to-day that tire lined and ornamented with electric lights, telegraph and telephone poles, that give them the appearance of an old cypress swamp, were then lined with the stately and beautiful water oak and magnolia; no electric cars, automobiles, bicycles or paving, consequently one could cross them through the deep, soft sand without being confronted with the dangers that the modern means of travel now impose on people. I found the little city quite a busy one in some lines of business, …


The Origin Of Phosphate, John Y. Detwiler Nov 2020

The Origin Of Phosphate, John Y. Detwiler

Florida Historical Quarterly

This article, although here printed for the first time, was written in 1897, five years before the destruction of St. Pierre on the island of Martinique, which was caused by a natural catastrophe similar to that by which Mr. Detwiler believes the phosphate beds were formed. --Editor


In Memoriam: David Elwell Maxwell, John C. Cooper Nov 2020

In Memoriam: David Elwell Maxwell, John C. Cooper

Florida Historical Quarterly

David Elwell Maxwell was born in the city of Tallahassee, Florida, February 25th, 1843. He was the son of William M. and Rebecca F. Maxwell. His father came to Florida from Georgia, when the former was a territory. He was educated in or near Tallahassee, until 1857, when he attended school in Cambridge, Massachusetts until 1860.


Illustration: David Elwell Maxwell, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Illustration: David Elwell Maxwell, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 1, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Ads, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Ads, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes ads for Florida National Band and Drew's Stationary, Book and Art Store


Origin Of The County Names In Florida, Geo. B. Utley Nov 2020

Origin Of The County Names In Florida, Geo. B. Utley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following article indicates briefly the origin of the names given to the various counties of the State of Florida. So far as possible the reason for the name is given, as well as its origin. In instances where counties were named for men of national prominence there is often no apparent significance except the desire to honor the memory of a national hero.


Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Old Newspapers, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Old Newspapers, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The, Florida Historical Society has recently acquired by gift and purchase several old newspapers, which are interesting reading, and are undoubtedly genuine.


Antiquities At And Near New Smyrna, Florida, John Y. Detwiler Nov 2020

Antiquities At And Near New Smyrna, Florida, John Y. Detwiler

Florida Historical Quarterly

These antiquities embrace at the present time, the “Spanish Mission,” the “Old Fort” and the “Rock House,” the latter within the last few years having been destroyed by the removal of the shell mound on which it was built, for road making purposes. This building as well as that of the Spanish Mission, however, has been perpetuated by photographs of which the Florida State Historical Society has authenticated copies.


Richard Keith Call, Caroline Mays Brevard Nov 2020

Richard Keith Call, Caroline Mays Brevard

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the early days of the organization of the Territory of Florida the inevitable struggle between the red and the white man had been foreshadowed. There were collisions and depredations when the white man would venture into the Indian reserves, or when the Indian would venture upon the white man’s lands.


Old St. Augustine, Dewitt Webb Nov 2020

Old St. Augustine, Dewitt Webb

Florida Historical Quarterly

Twenty-five years ago the harbor of St. Augustine during society’s season was white with the sails of many yachts; There were more than seventy-five of them.


Illustration: An Early And Rare View Of The Harbor, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Illustration: An Early And Rare View Of The Harbor, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

From an engraving made about 1650, and now in the St. Augustine Museum


Verso, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 1, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Ads, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Ads, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes ads for Florida National Band and Drew's Stationary, Book and Art Store


The Story Of Juan Ortiz And Uleleh, F. P. Fleming Nov 2020

The Story Of Juan Ortiz And Uleleh, F. P. Fleming

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


George West Wilson, F. P. Fleming Nov 2020

George West Wilson, F. P. Fleming

Florida Historical Quarterly

An obituary for George West Wilson


Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Selection Of Tallahassee As The Capitol, John Lee Williams Nov 2020

The Selection Of Tallahassee As The Capitol, John Lee Williams

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jounrnal of John Lee Williams, Commissioner to Locate the Seat of Government of the Territory of Florida.


The First Message Of Gov. William P. Duval, William P. Duval Nov 2020

The First Message Of Gov. William P. Duval, William P. Duval

Florida Historical Quarterly

To the Legislative Council Assembled in Tallahassee, Florida, 1824.


Richard Keith Call, Caroline Mays Bevard Nov 2020

Richard Keith Call, Caroline Mays Bevard

Florida Historical Quarterly

Richard Keith Call, was born in Prince George County, Virginia, 1791. His father, Major William Call, was of high standing and influence, who had rendered distinguished service in the Revolutionary war. Major Call had possessed a large fortune; but after the war reverses came, his estate was embarrassed, and when he died very little was left, after the payment of all debts, for the support of his widow and children.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 1, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Index Of Documents Related To Fr. Vincent A. Lipinski, Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2020

Index Of Documents Related To Fr. Vincent A. Lipinski, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Fr. Vincent A. Lipinski

No abstract provided.


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 1, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

To Conquer the Coast: Pensacola, the Gulf of Mexico and the Construction of American Imperialism, 1820-1848 by Maria Angela Diaz
Losing Lincoln: Black Educators, Historical Memory, and the Desegregation of Lincoln High School in Gainesville, Florida by Kathryn Palmer
The Gulf Coast Fish Cheer: Radicalism and the Underground Press in Pensacola, Florida, 1970-1971 by Christopher Satterwhite
Book Reviews
End Notes


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 4, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Pensacola's Cast Iron Architecture by Cynthia Catellier
New Deal Historic Preservation for Key West by Matthew G. Hyland
The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy over Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union by Brad Massey
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida in Publications 2015
Index to Volume 94


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 3, Florida Historical Society Nov 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Florida by James G. Cusick
Interpreting Florida, Its Nineteenth-Century Literary Heritage by Maurice O'Sullivan
Abiaka, or Sam Jones, in Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis through the Third Seminole War by Patsy West
"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility and Power in the Second Seminole War by Christine A. Rizzi
Runaway Slave Advertisements in Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective by Matthew J. Clavin
A Flower at Elmira: The Prisoner of War Diary of Wilbur Wightman Gramling by Robert Saunders, Jr.
Another Invisible Man: Alexander …