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A brick courthouse replaced the old wooden one in 1885. Public utilities were gradually installed in the city late in the 19th century; gas in 1887, water in 1891, and telephones and electricity later in the 1890s. By 1900 Gainesville was the seventh largest city in Florida, with over 3,600 residents. [59]
The Spanish assault on French Florida began as part of imperial Spain's geopolitical strategy of developing colonies in the New World to protect its claimed territories against incursions by other European powers. From the early 16th century, the French had historic claims to some of the lands in the New World that the Spanish called La Florida ...
Florida. Flo. Florida ( / ˈflɒrɪdə / ( listen) American Spanish: [flɒrida] ), officially the State of Florida, is a state in the southeast part of the United States. It is the 22nd largest US state by total area with 65,757.70 sq mi (170,312 km 2) and the third most-populous with a 2020 population of more than 21 million.
The history of Florida began when the first Native Americans came to live in the peninsula about 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Written history begins with the arrival of Europeans to Florida. In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León kept the first records. [2]
City of St. Augustine. St. Augustine ( / ˈɔːɡəstiːn / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville. The city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
East Florida ( Spanish: Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821. The British gained control over Spanish Florida in 1763 as part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years' War. Deciding that the colony was too large to administer as a single unit, British ...
Hernando de Miranda and Alonso de Solís (murdered) [3] 1576. Gutierre de Miranda. 1576 – 1577. acting. Pedro Menéndez Márquez and Rodrigo del Junco (the latter held the governorship between 1590 and 1592) 1577 – 1594. Beginning of the Spanish missions to the Timucua. Vicente González (1577-1578) and Tomás Bernaldo de Quirós (1578-1579 ...