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  • Pinellas County, Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pinellas County, Florida. Wikipedia

  • Seminole County, Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Seminole County, Florida. On July 21, 1821, two counties formed Florida: Escambia to the west and St. Johns to the east. In 1824, the area to the south of St. Johns County was designated Mosquito County, with its seat at Enterprise. The county's name was changed to Orange County in 1845 when Florida became a state, and over the next 7...

  • Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida

    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...

  • Miami-Dade County, Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Wikipedia 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.

  • Alachua County, Florida

    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 ...

  • Palm Beach County, Florida

    This Project is for those who were born, lived or died in Palm Beach County, Florida Wikipedia

  • Lake County,Florida

    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...

  • Indian River County,Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Indian River County. Prior to 1821 the area of Indian River County was part of the Spanish colony of East Florida. In 1822 this area became part of St. Johns County, and in 1824 it became part of Mosquito County (original name of Orange County). The Second Seminole War was fought in 1835 and from 1838 to 1839. Fort Vinton was built for...

  • Pensacola,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...

  • University of Florida

    Wikipedia The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida. On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the first person to take advantage of the...

  • Miami Dolphins (NFL)

    The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football franchise located in the Miami metropolitan area. The Dolphins compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The Dolphins play their home games at New Miami Stadium in the northern suburb of Miami Gardens, and are headquartered in Davie, Florida. The Dolphins and the...

  • University of Miami

    Wikipedia The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U Miami, Miami, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian university located in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2012, the university currently enrolls 15,613 student in 12 separate colleges, including a medical school located in Miami's Civic Center neighborhood, a law school on the main campus, and a school focused on th...

  • Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)

    The Jacksonville Jaguars are an American professional football franchise based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at EverBank Field.The Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers joined the NFL as expansion teams for the 1995 season. Since their incept...

  • State of Florida

    This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of Florida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely popul...

  • Hillsborough County, Florida

    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...

  • Brevard County, Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Brevard County, Florida. Official Website The county is named for Theodorus Washington Brevard . It is located on the central east coast of Florida, and is known as the Space Coast due to the large presence of The Kennedy Space Center. History During the 19th century, the state of Florida was constantly changing the names and borde...

  • Broward County, Florida

    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...

  • Union County, Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Union County, Florida. Union County was created in 1921 from part of Bradford County. It was named to honor the concept of unity. Wikipedia Cemeteries Cemeteries of Florida

  • Bradford County,Florida

    This project is for those who were born, lived and died in Bradford County, Florida. New River County, as it was known at the time, was created in 1858 from segments of Columbia and Alachua counties. It was renamed Bradford County in 1861 in honor of Confederate Captain Richard Bradford, who fought in the American Civil War and was killed in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, becoming the first ...

  • Sarasota County, Florida

    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...

  • West Palm Beach, Florida

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in West Palm Beach, Florida. West Palm is the county seat of Palm Beach County. History Wikipedia When Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) first came here in 1893, he called the Lake Worth region “a veritable paradise” and decided upon a dual plan for the area that was once the ancestral home of the Jeaga Indians. He would turn Pa...

  • Monroe County, Florida

    This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Florida. Wikipedia The county is named for James Monroe , 5th president of the United States.

  • Newnansville Cemetery, Alachua, Alachua County, Florida, USA

    Newnansville Cemetery, Alachua, Alachua County, Florida, USA: African American Cemetery. Directly adjacent to the Newnansville Cemetery, but a seperate and distinct cemetery separated by a fence. Most of the burials appear to be African-American and many are above ground.

  • Newnansville (African-American) Cemetery, Alachua, Alachua County, Florida, USA

    Newnansville Cemetery, Alachua, Alachua County, Florida, USA: African American Cemetery. Directly adjacent to the Newnansville Cemetery, but a seperate and distinct cemetery separated by a fence. Most of the burials appear to be African-American and many are above ground.

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