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This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Florida. Lake County was created in 1887 from portions of Sumter and Orange counties. It was named for the many lakes contained within its borders (250 named lakes and 1,735 other bodies of water). In the 1800s, the two main industries in the area were growing cotton and breeding cattle. In the latter part of the 19th cent...
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Sarasota County, Florida. Although the name was associated with the area from the beginning of European contacts, the origin of the name "Sarasota" is unknown. In the early twentieth-century, a fanciful story was created to go hand-in-hand with a pageant held in Sarasota. The story held that the town was named after the daughter of fam...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Hillsborough County, Florida. Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from Alachua and Monroe Counties,[6] during the U.S. territorial period (1822–1845). The new county was named for Wills Hill, the Earl of Hillsborough, who served as British Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772. The County was created th...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pinellas County, Florida. When Europeans first reached the Pinellas peninsula, the Tampa Bay area was inhabited by people of the Safety Harbor culture. The Safety Harbor culture area was divided into chiefdoms. One documented chiefdom in what is now Pinellas County was that of the Tocobaga, who occupied a town and large temple mound, th...
Pioneers of Escambia County, Florida:
This project is for those from Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. Genealogy Trails-Escambia County Cemeteries PNJ News 04/11/2021 "1821 Pensacola Sampler by Erin Renfroe. Here is a copied text from the first paragraph, The Sampler project was presented to the West Florida Genealogical Society by the 200th Anniversary Commission as a project that suited the skills and expertise of its me...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Escambia County, Florida. Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is in the state's northwestern corner. Its county seat and largest city is Pensacola. Escambia County is included within the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county population has cont...
Potters Field Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA : Find a Grave I would like to thank WEST FLORIDA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY; and Erin Renfroe of Find a Grave for their help.
Wikipedia =Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. It has approximately 2,800 students, and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000. The university's ...
Ocala is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Florida, United States. Located in North Central Florida, the city's population was 63,591 as of the 2020 census, up from 56,315 at the 2010 census and making it the 43rd-most populated city in Florida. Ocala is the principal city of the Ocala metropolitan area, which had a population of 375,908 in 2020. Home to over 400 thoroughbred far...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Florida. Evidence of ancient indigenous cultures has been found in Marion County, as well as of the earliest encounter between European explorers and historic indigenous peoples. In 1976, an archaeological investigation found ancient artifacts in Marion County that appear to be the oldest in mainland United States. Excava...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Jacksonville ,Duval County, Florida. Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968. It is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. Cit...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Duval County, Florida. Duval County was created in 1822 from St. Johns County. It was named for William Pope Duval, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834. When Duval County was created, it covered a massive area, from the Suwannee River on the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, north of a line from the mouth of the Suwann...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. Gainesville was established in 1854 and named after Edmund P. Gaines . The town of Gainesville was incorporated in 1869 and chartered as a city in 1907. The University of the State of Florida was moved from Lake City to Gainesville in 1906 and its name was simplified to University of Florida in 190...
This is a project for those who were born, lived, or died in Alachua County, Florida. History Alachua County was created by the Florida territorial legislature in 1824. The new county stretched from the border with Georgia south to Charlotte Harbor. The original county seat was Wanton's. In 1828 the county seat was moved to Newnansville, located near the current site of the city of Alachua....
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Florida. The land that is Orange County was part of the first land to come up from below the Early Oligocene sea and is known as Orange Island. Orange County's Rock Spring location is a Pleistocene fossil-bearing area and has yielded a vast variety of birds and mammals including giant sloth, mammoth, camel, and the dire w...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami County was named for the Mayaimi, a Native American tribe that lived around Lake Okeechobee until the 17th or 18th century. Dade County was named for Bvt. Maj. Francis Langhorne Dade. On November 13, 1997, voters changed the name to Miami-Dade County. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Florida Links ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth largest city in Florida. After Miami and Hial...
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Broward County, Florida. Broward County was founded on April 30, 1915. It was intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to name it in honor of Gov. Napoleon B. Broward , governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909. Throughout his...
This cemetery is located on 1044 Shadeville Road, Shadeville, Wakulla County, Florida. Find a Grave
Walton County was organized by European Americans in 1824. It was named for Colonel George Walton Jr., secretary of the Florida Territory from 1821 to 1826. Walton, the son of George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born August 15, 1786, in Augusta, Georgia, and died March 20, 1859, in Petersburg, Virginia. Between 1763 and 1783 the territory that has since become Walto...
Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits. It is best kno...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pasco County, Florida. Pasco County is a county located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. According to the 2020 census, the population was 561,691, making it the eleventh-most populous county in the state. Its county seat is Dade City, and its largest city is Zephyrhills. The county is named after Sen. Samuel Pasc...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Putnam County, Florida. Putnam County was created in 1849. It was Florida's 28th county created from parts of St. Johns, Alachua, Orange, Duval, and Marion counties. The county was named for Benjamin A. Putnam, who was an officer in the First Seminole War, a lawyer, Florida legislator, and the first president of the Florida Historical ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Florida. The first people to inhabit the area now called Polk County were the Paleoindians who arrived in Florida at least 12,000 years ago, late in the last ice age. With large amounts of water locked up in continental ice caps, the sea level was more than 150 feet lower than at present. The Florida peninsula was twice as...