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2. Timeline of Florida history - Wikipedia

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   July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established. December 31: Andrew Jackson leaves office as the governor of Florida. 1822. March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office.

3. History of Florida - Wikipedia

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   The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.

4. Florida land boom of the 1920s - Wikipedia

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   This pioneering era of Florida land speculation lasted from 1924 to 1926 and attracted investors from all over the nation. [1] The land boom left behind entirely new, planned developments incorporated into towns and cities. Major investors and speculators such as Carl G. Fisher also left behind a new history of racially deed restricted ...

5. Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has become ... - AOL

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   Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has become a battle over who controls the past. Mary Ellen Klas. February 6, 2023 at 12:00 PM. For 71 years, the survivors of Rosewood controlled their ...

6. Fort Caroline - Wikipedia

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   Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.

7. What do Florida’s Black history standards actually say? A ...

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   When Florida’s State Board of Education adopted new standards for teaching African American history earlier this month, a deluge of criticism quickly followed. It was largely directed at two ...