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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.
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...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Jay, Santa Rosa County, Florida. In 1902, a committee was formed to select a name for the thriving farming community. James Thomas Nowling submitted the name "Pine Level" but it was declined due to a Florida post office already using it. Mr. Nowling was asked to submit a second name and was turned down again due to the name being too lo...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Inverness, Citrus County, Florida. Archaeological digs showed that the Seminole resided in the area that is now Inverness. The Seminole leader Osceola made his wartime camp, known as Powell's Town, in the area during the Second Seminole War. During the Second Seminole War, the nearby Fort Cooper was besieged by Osceola and his band of...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Laurel Hill, Florida. The area which is now Laurel Hill was one of the first post-American annexation English-speaking settlements in Florida. There had been settlements by English-speaking loyalists in Florida during the American Revolution. Settlers were documented establishing a community, originally known as Almirante, soon after Fl...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Highlands County, Florida. Highlands County was created in 1921 along with Charlotte, Glades, and Hardee, when they were separated from DeSoto County. It was named for the terrain of the county. It boasted the fifth-oldest population in America in 2012. Wikipedia
This project is for those from Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa, Florida. Gulf Breeze is a city in Santa Rosa County, Florida. It is a suburb of Pensacola, and is in the Pensacola Metropolitan Area. The population was 6,340 in 2020 and is 6,963 as of 2024. Gulf Breeze is located just north of Pensacola Beach, and south of Pensacola. Gulf Breeze is on the Fairpoint Peninsula, and is bordered by Navarre...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Gulf County, Florida Gulf County, created in 1925, was named for the Gulf of Mexico. Wewahitchka was its first county seat and the 1927 Gulf County Courthouse is still there. In 1965, the county seat was moved to Port Saint Joe, which under its original name Saint Joseph, had been the site of Florida's first Constitutional Convention i...
Nix Family Cemetery , Escambia County, Florida, USA Note: African American Cemetery Note: This is an older cemetery. Surnames are Barneabeo, Foley, Milsted and Nix. Dates vary from 1882 to 1920.
The settlement in the area now known as Frostproof was established in 1850. This settlement, like many in central Florida at the time, was set up as a fort and was called Fort Clinch. The fort was named after the local Lake Clinch which was, in turn, named after the Seminole War commander Duncan Lamont Clinch. This settlement was abandoned only months later. By the 1880s, Frostproof began to s...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Freeport, Walton County, Florida. Freeport is said to have been established circa 1830. It was called Freeport due to an absence of fees to use the dock ('free port') at the junction of Four Mile Creek and Lafayette Creek. Historically, the economy of Freeport was largely dependent on the local timber industry through sawmills and logg...
This project is for those from Wahneta,Polk County,Florida.
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Crestview, Okaloosa County, Florida. Crestview was largely an outgrowth of the coming of railroad service to the west Panhandle of Florida. The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad Company, chartered in 1881, opened its line between Pensacola and Chattahoochee in January 1883. Soon two express passenger trains, the Atlantic Express and the ...
This is for those from Florence Villa, Polk County, Florida. Florence Villa is a neighborhood within the city limits of Winter Haven, Florida. It is situated nearby to the hamlet Poinsettia Park and the locality Cypress Gardens. The Florence Villa Training School for Negroes replaced an earlier African-American school built in 1916 on the corner of 2nd and Palmetto Street. By 1922 the first ...
Cemetery notes and/or description: This historic cemetery is located on the western edge of Bartow. One of the county's oldest black cemeteries, it includes the headstone of Prince Johnson, one of four black men who, along with 18 white men, voted to incorporate the town of Bartow in 1882. The 1890s graves of Andy and his wife Tamer (Reed) Moore are also found there. Andy and Tamer Moore were b...
The Campbellton Cavalry (100 Great Things about Jackson County, Florida)William J. Daniel was a member of the Cambellton Cavalry He is buried at Campbellton Baptist Church. With the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Marianna approaching, the next few articles in our list of 100 Great Things about Jackson County, Florida, will focus on the men and boys that defended the county on September 26-2...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pasco County, Florida. Wikipedia The county is named for Sen. Samuel Pasco .
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Dundee, Polk County, Florida. A post office called Dundee has been in operation since 1912. The town was named after Dundee, in Scotland. Dundee was incorporated as a town in 1925. Wikipedia
This project is for those from Defuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida. The town was founded during the late 19th century as a resort development by the officers of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, a subsidiary of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The P&A was organized to connect the terminus of the L&N at Pensacola to the western terminus of a predecessor of the Seaboard Air Line Ra...
people from Lakeland,Polk County, Florida.
This project is for those from Cantonment, Escambia County, Florida. Cantonment is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Florida. Once considered an isolated, rural community; it has rapidly expanded with residential growth in recent years. Cantonment is located north of Pensacola, and south of Molino. It is a bedroom community of Pensacola, and is located in the Pensacola Metropolit...
This project is for those who fought at the Battle of Marianna, Jackson County, Florida on September 27,1864. The Battle of Marianna was a small but significant engagement on September 27, 1864, in the panhandle of Florida during the American Civil War. The Union destruction against Confederates and militia defending the town of Marianna was the culmination of a substantial Federal cavalry ra...
Battle of Gainesville, August 17, 1864: The Battle of Gainesville was an American Civil War engagement fought on August 17, 1864, when a Confederate force defeated Union detachments from Jacksonville, Florida. The result of the battle was the Confederate occupation of Gainesville for the remainder of the war. The Union troops arrived in Gainesville on August 17, to find the town occupied by ...
This project is for those that fought at The Battle of Olustee or Battle of Ocean Pond, February 20,1864 . Wikipedia . 1,152 wounded 506 captured/missing) 946 (93 killed 847 wounded 6 captured/missing) The Battle of Olustee or Battle of Ocean Pond was fought in Baker County, Florida on February 20, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the largest battle fought in Flori...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Titusville, Brevard County, Florida. Official Website This community was originally called Sand Point, and a post office was established in 1859, although it closed a few months later. Henry T. Titus arrived in 1867, intending to build a town on land owned by his wife, Mary Hopkins Titus, daughter of a prominent planter from Darien, G...