Grayson's Florida History Blog

     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