History Everglades is a long mangrove island located in the southern part of Florida. Known today as the “fishing and stone crab capital of Southwest Florida”, Everglades was a small fishing village...
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History Everglades is a long mangrove island located in the southern part of Florida. Known today as the “fishing and stone crab capital of Southwest Florida”, Everglades was a small fishing village...
History Many names are attributed to the bay. Juan Ponce de Leon, in 1513, named the bay as Chequescha. In 1565, the bay was called Tequesta by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. During the British occupation...
History Tallahassee is the capital of Florida, named after the Apalachee Native American world which means “land of old fields”. Apalachee Indians were the early settlers of Tallahassee area...
History Pensacola was first inhabited by Panzacola Indians thousands of years ago. There existed pine forests which provided good shade and easy passage ways since there were no undergrowth. Since...
History First settlers in Panama City were the native Americans. In 1830s, the natives from Georgia and Alabama started making cabins along the shores. In 1909, businesses began and expanded in...
History Florida Keys means “Florida’s little islands”, coining from the Spanish word “cayo”, which means “little island.” The Keys had been originally...
History The name Marathon originated when railroad workers often exclaimed “this is going to be a real marathon” because of their continues effort to complete the railway. In early 1900s when the...
History Key Largo is among the largest of the islands in the Florida Keys. Original residents were the native American tribes, but the Europeans later came and claimed the land. Ponce de Leon, a...
History Named after Col. Henry T. Titus, the city of Titusville was founded in 1867. Orginally named “Sand Point”, Titusville was inhabited by Ais Indians. The indigenous tribe fished the Indian...