Grayson's Florida History Blog

 Hello! This will be my final post on this Florida History Blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed this class and the learning style that Professor McCoy has given us. This paragraph below you explains some of the topics that I learned throughout the course of this Florida History class. Having lived in Florida all my life, I had no idea all the stages that Florida went through to become the Florida we know and love. In this class I learned about the ancient tribes that lived in Florida before us. My favorite of these tribes was The Calusa. I enjoyed learning about their belief system, and how they thought the afterlife was going to be. Regarding race, I had a prior knowledge to the evils that were committed in Florida throughout the civil war, but this class explained in further detail the grit of slavery in the south. The book,  A Land Remembered , tied in very well with this timeline of slavery and early living in the Florida wetlands. Regarding class, I enjoyed learning about the ...

  Current Event   Source:   thebradentontimes.com         Must be a respected News source Article Title :  BOCC Approves Bleach Plant’s Brine Waste into County Deep Well Article date :  Nov 30 2022     Circle One:       Local      State     National     International Who was involved? (Identify the people, groups, or organizations)  Manatee County Commission, City of Bradenton, Florida, Bill Galvano ( Senate President ),  Where did this event happen? (Be specific)  Fort Pierce Utilities Water Well.  L ocated at 8500 69th Street East . When did this event happen? (Date, month, time frame, and/or year).  The decision was made on Tuesday, Nov 29 2022. What happened? (Include sequence of events in complete sentences)  The manatee county commission approved and allowed “New Technologies 2” to dump their w...

My Thursday afternoon started off with me making my cup of coffee and heading out the door in search for Fort Caroline memorial in Jacksonville Florida. Fort Caroline was exactly 25 minutes from my house and is located in the northern Arlington area. I arrived at Fort Caroline park at 10am and made my way into the trail. I spent about 45 minutes walking around the park and taking pictures. I also did some research the day before to learn a little more about this fort before I explored it.  Fort Caroline was built in 1564 by the French ruler, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere. This time period is important because at the time, the French were colonizing Florida in attempts to get ahead of Spain. According to the book, The History of Florida by Michael Gannon, The ruling of Fort Caroline did not last long. "Supplies soon ran short in Fort Caroline, and not enough food could be obtained from the natives. A series of mutinies and desertions began. Eleven men fled in a small craft, and then...

Chapter 15 Worksheet Grayson Foye   Who is the author of this chapter and what information can you find about the author elsewhere in the text?   Jarrel H. Shofner.        According to this chapter, list 2 things that were in desperate need of “reconstruction”   2 things that this chapter makes clear that need reconstruction is obviously slavery, and the economy after the civil war.   Florida stands apart from other areas of the South in the way that General Newton handled two main areas: politics & freedmen.  Discuss both. Florida was reformed faster in regards to freedmen. This is because he informed farmers to start paying their slaves for their work. Regarding Politics, Florida stood apart from other states in regards to the Direct Tax Commission, which helped sell confederate property on union lines.   Demand for cotton was ( increasing or decreasing) during the early years of reconstruction.     ...

 In the novel, A Land Remembered, Tobias provides a guy named Skillit with a job after he was freed from slavery. Slavery was abolished May 20th 1865 and was abolished under Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It took the state of Florida an extra 2 years after the Emancipation to officially abolish slavery in the Floridas.  But, even after the slaves were "officially free," there were many slaves who had no where to go after they were legally free, and many were still enslaved after the proclomation. In the novel, A Land Remembered, Skillit was on the run after he was freed, but had nowhere to go. He only had pants to his name when Tobias found him wandering the land. Sadly, many plantation owners were not following the new laws regarding the abolishment of slavery, leaving many slaves confused on wether they could rightfully leave their plantations and harsh conditions.  This is a flyer from 1860, posted by Edmund Jones informing people of his runaway slave tha...

drawn / labeled by Grayson Foye

 Hello! I am posting a worksheet for my Florida History class at FSCJ- (My answers are in RED ) McCoy/AMH2070           CHAPTER ANALYSIS    WORKSHEET             Name: Grayson Foye                                                         (40 total points)   (2) Cite your Article (in proper APA format):   Gannon, Michael.   The History of Florida . University Press of Florida, 2018.   Focus Questions: (1)     Who are the authors?    Susan Richbourgh + William Coker   (5) Identify and discuss the issue of “perspective” with regards to Anglo writings of Spani...

     Today started with an early morning drive to Fernandina Beach FL, where Fort Clinch is located. I grabbed a coffee and me and mom were out the door by 10am. The drive was a quick 55 minutes from my house in Jacksonville, but it turned out to be a well worth drive after arriving at the fort itself. Fort Clinch was built in 1847 where the goal was protection of the georgia coast. However, the civil war forced the fort into being mostly vacant for the years during the war and hereafter. General Robert E. Lee forced evacuation of this fort in 1862 and the fort has not been used since. It stands now as history of what could have been, and a force to be reckoned with for anyone who challenged the southern Georgia border.  “History of Fort Clinch.”  Florida State Parks , 2018, https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-fort-clinch.            After entering the state park, we were met by the visitor center, where the kind pe...

 

 Here is a project from my History of Florida class. I did a virtual tour of Fort Jefferson located in Key West Florida. The numbers assigned in the picture correspond to the description next to the number below. 

 Here is one of my History of Florida projects, a virtual tour of the first ever mission in Texas! The picture was drawn by me and is labeled to give you some more information. 

In the 1500’s, the European explorers landed in the wettest land condition they have ever discovered, La Florida. They landed in these lands, more specifacally the everglades, in the early 1500’s. Although these conditions were harsh and hard to live in, the European settlers were not the first to step on this so called, “undiscovered land.” Native Americans were already inhabitting this land by the time the Europeans explored the everglades. It only took until the 1700’s for most of the local native american tribes to be completely wiped out from murder or European disease.  Although these wet conditions seem impossible to live in, there have been humans living in the everglades since 13,000B.C. The two main tribes that occupied this region were the Calusa Indians and the Tequesta Indians. Pictured above is estimated to be what these ancient tribes looked like so long ago. “The Tequesta tribe was a smaller tribe, but the Calusa was bigger in size, about 4,000 to 7,000 at their...

 

  The Discovery of “La Florida” 1492 - Christopher Columbus’ “New World.” 1511 - Peter Mayrtr Map of Islands and Shores 1512 - “Fountain of Youth” 1513 - Juan Ponce lands in Florida 1521 - Carlos V sails to Florida with Juan Ponce 1521 - Juan Ponce dies from his infection 1525 - New land named, “La Florida.” 1528 - De Narváez arrives in La Florida 1539 - De Soto lands in Tampa Bay, heading to Missisippi River 1540 - European germs destroy local population

  McCoy/AMH2070            CHAPTER 2     ANALYSIS     WORKSHEET           Name: Grayson Foye                                                        (40 total points)   (4) Cite your Article (in proper APA format): gffloridahistory.blogspot.com   Focus Questions: (1)     Who is the author?   Michael Gannon. (10) One argument presented is that Historic Accounts are not always cut & dry/ certain.  Discuss 2 examples within this chapter that supports this idea.  (pg. 18.28)             1. Juan Ponce w...