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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...
This project is for those buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Raiford, Union County, Florida. The cemetery is located on Northeast County Road 199 and is also known as Pine Grove Congregational Methodist Cemetery . Find a Grave
This Project is for those who were born, lived or died in Palm Beach County, Florida Wikipedia
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 Manatee County, Florida. The area now known as Manatee County had been inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years. Shell middens and other archaeological digs have been conducted throughout the county including at Terra Ceia and at Perico Island. These digs revealed materials belonging to peoples from the Woodland period. S...
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...
The cemetery is located on Taft St. in Hollywood, Broward County, Florida between 441 and the Turnpike. It is also known as Fred Hunter's Hollywood Memorial Gardens North . Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida The name Tallahassee is a Muskogean language word often translated as "old fields" or "old town". It was likely an expression of the Creek people who migrated from Georgia and Alabama to this region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, under pressure from European-American encroachment on their t...
This project is for those who were born ,lived or died in Leon County, Florida. Leon County (Spanish: Condado de León) is a county in the Panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. It was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon . As of the 2020 census, the population was 292,198. The county seat is Tallahassee , which is also the state capital and home to many politicians, lobbyists,...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Wakulla County, Florida. First Spanish Period In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez found his way to what would be Wakulla County from the future Pinellas County, Florida, camping at the confluence of the Wakulla and St. Marks rivers. Narváez determined this was a very suitable spot for a fort. In 1539, Hernando de Soto's expedition passed thr...
This cemetery is located on 1044 Shadeville Road, Shadeville, Wakulla County, Florida. Find a Grave
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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...
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 Levy County, Florida. Levy County was created in 1845, after the Seminole Wars, and became Florida's 27th county. It was named for David Levy Yulee David Levy Yulee, a slave owner elected in 1841 as the state's territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives, where he served two terms. Levy provided for long-term development in...
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...
This cemetery is located on 412 East Park Avenue, Chiefland, Levy County, Florida. It contains many pioneers of the county. Find a Grave USGW Archives Billion Graves
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...
Wikipedia =The Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU) is an American public space-grant and sea-grant research university. Its primary campus is located on a 1,391.54-acre (5.631 km2) campus in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of high...
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...
Ponce de Leon is said to have discovered the Fountain of Youth in St Augustine in March of 1513. In honor of his Easter arrival, Ponce de Leon gave Florida its name "Pacula de Flores" (Land of Flowers). There is a statute of Ponce de Leon standing on the east end of the Plaza near the Bridge of Lions. It is a duplicate of the one in San Jaun Puerto Rico. St. Augustine was founded forty-two ye...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in St. Johns County, Florida St. Johns County's history begins in 1821, when Colonel Robert Butler received Spanish East Florida from Captain-General Colonel José M. Coppinger. Butler represented Major General Andrew Jackson, federal military commissioner for the Florida provinces (las Floridas) with the powers of governor, exercising the ...
Wikipedia =Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M University or FAMU, is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Florida A&M University was founded on the highest of seven hills in Tallahassee, Florida on October 3, 1887. It is one of the largest historically black universities in the United States by enrollment. It ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pinellas County, Florida. Wikipedia
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Osceola County, Florida. Wikipedia