Forgotten Florida

Author : J. Kent Thompson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781304808936
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Florida's Forgotten Coast written by J. Kent Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come experience the beauty of North Florida's beaches, attend a womanless beauty pageant or ride on a twelve car ferry to one of Florida's barrier Islands. Drive the beach in search of a loggerhead turtle laying her eggs late at night and tell ghost stories around a campfire. This book focuses on a little known area of North Florida's coast. These are stories of the people and events that make up one of Florida's hidden secrets--it's crown jewel called the Forgotten Coast.

Author : Clarissa Thomasson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683343182
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Florida written by Clarissa Thomasson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORGOTTEN FLORIDA, tells the story of the Florida peninsula from the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819 up to the beginning of the Second Seminole War in 1835. The story is told from the perspective of well-documented men who took part in the development of the Gulf coastal areas from Pensacola to Key West and include Commodore David Porter, Colonel James Gadsden, Colonel George Brooke, Colonel Duncan Clinch, and Major Francis Dade as well as Captain William Bunce of the Aristocrat and Captain Fred Tresca of the Margaret Ann—both of whom sailed the Gulf coast from Key West to Pensacola and served to connect the various settlements. The book begins with the New York lawyer, Richard Hackley, who had been a consul in Cadiz, Spain, and had—purchased the entire west side of Florida from the Spanish Duke Alagon, who had received it as a gift from King Ferdinand of Spain before the peninsula had been given to the United States for the forgiveness of Ferdinand’s five-million-dollar debt to the U.S. Believing the purchase to be legal, Richard Hackley sends his son, Robert, to the Tampa Bay area to set up a homestead and open the land to settlement. Braving the pirate-ridden waters surrounding Key West and fall storms, Hackley arrives at Tampa Bay and builds a plantation home in November 1823. Heading to Pensacola for supplies in late December, Hackley returns to Tampa Bay to discover that—following the Treaty of Moultrie Creek—the U.S. Army had designated the same area in which he has built his home as a base on the western side of the new Seminole territory and has taken over his home and land for Cantonment Brooke. Action continues from the new base to the building of Tallahassee, the establishment of Key West, and the settlement of Sanibel Island—with the Hackley family attempting to settle and sell their land—during the Seminole unrest threatening the territory culminating with the massacre of Major Dade’s Companies on December 28, 1835, and the beginning of the second Seminole War.

Author : Patrick D. Smith
Publisher : Pineapple PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781561642236
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D. Smith and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

Author : Arva Moore Parks
Publisher : Past Perfect Florida Histor
ISBN 13 : 0974158925
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Frontier written by Arva Moore Parks and published by Past Perfect Florida Histor. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.

Author : John B. Spohrer, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532335761
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Football and Murder written by John B. Spohrer, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446573043
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Army Special Agent John Puller finds his aunt dead in Florida, he suspects it's no accident . . . and as local police dismiss the case, the cracks begin to show in a picture-perfect town. Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case--but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida. A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just before she died, she mailed a letter to Puller's father, telling him that beneath its beautiful veneer, Paradise is not all it seems to be. What Puller finds convinces him that his aunt's death was no accident...and that the palm trees and sandy beaches of Paradise may hide a conspiracy so shocking that some will go to unthinkable lengths to make sure the truth is never revealed.

Author : Blair Miller
Publisher : Hamilton Books
ISBN 13 : 0761859969
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almost Hollywood written by Blair Miller and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise of Jacksonville in early silent films. Home to over thirty studios employing actors, directors, and stagehands, Jacksonville became touted as the “winter film capital of the world” by 1915. A myriad of factors contributed to Jacksonville’s rise and then fall by the mid 1920s. What were the reasons why Jacksonville missed out as the next mecca for filmmaking? Blair Miller tells the story through primary sources from that remarkable period.

Author : Carlton Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977368884
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Coast written by Carlton Ward and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dawn Lee McKenna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692466339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low Tide written by Dawn Lee McKenna and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Apalachicola, Florida, sinister things are afoot, as sinister things tend to be. Lt. Maggie Redmond is called to a crime scene on St. George Island, where she is met with the body of Gregory Boudreaux. The medical examiner calls it a suicide, but no one knows that Maggie has a horrible connection to the dead man. When Gregory's uncle, Bennett Boudreaux, the richest and scariest man in town, takes a sudden interest in Maggie, people start to wonder, Maggie included. Maggie knows he may suspect her of killing his nephew, but she finds herself slowly drawn to the man. As Maggie fights to help a young girl escape the clutches of a volatile drug dealer who'd love to see Maggie dead, she also struggles to hide her dark link to a dead man, and her burgeoning relationship with her boss, Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton. Unfortunately, the best time for digging up secrets is at low tide"--

Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588384144
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fourteenth Colony written by Mike Bunn and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an important and compelling interlude in Gulf Coast history that has for too long been overlooked. For a host of reasons, including the fact that West Florida did not rebel against the British Government, the colony has long been dismissed as a loyal but inconsequential fringe outpost, if considered at all. But the colony's history showcases a tumultuous political scene featuring a halting attempt at instituting representative government; a host of bold and colorful characters; a compelling saga of struggle and perseverance in the pursuit of financial stability; and a dramatic series of battles on land and water which brought about the end of its days under the Union Jack. In Fourteenth Colony, historian Mike Bunn offers the first comprehensive history of the colony, introducing readers to the Gulf Coast's remarkable British period and putting West Florida back in its rightful place on the map of Colonial America.