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  2. List of the oldest buildings in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Building Image Location First Built Use Notes St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church: North Miami Beach, Florida: 12th century Monastery Built in Sacramenia in Segovia, Spain in the 12th century but dismantled in the 20th century and shipped to New York City in the United States. It was eventually reassembled in North Miami Beach. Castillo de San Marcos

  3. Roberts Island complex - Wikipedia

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    Roberts Island divides Crystal River and Salt River, a distributary of Crystal River, as they diverge. Both rivers are tidal. [1] The site is 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) downstream from the Crystal River archaeological site, [2] Roberts Island has Hallandale-Rock Outcrop as the primary soil type, with some areas of soil produced by prehistoric human activities. [1]

  4. Museum of Florida History - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Florida History operates the Knott House, built in 1843. [6] The Knott House was the temporary headquarters of the Union Army in Tallahassee. The Emancipation Proclamation was read from the steps of the building on May 20, 1865, declaring freedom for all slaves in the Florida panhandle. After the Civil War, Florida's first black ...

  5. 2,000-year-old beach house discovered during building work

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  6. John Bartlam - Wikipedia

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    Teapot, ca. 1765–69. John Bartlam (1735–1781) was a British maker of pottery who emigrated to America in 1763, and established a factory in Cainhoy, then called Cain Hoy, nine miles north of Charleston, South Carolina before moving to Camden, South Carolina.

  7. Johann Friedrich Böttger - Wikipedia

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    Johann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist.Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden.He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708, [1] but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers [2] or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus [3 ...

  8. Cryptic object discovered under one of Florida's most popular ...

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    This is not the first time that a shipwreck has been unearthed along this portion of Florida's coast. In late 2022, a mysterious shipwreck from the 1800s was spotted following coastal erosion from ...

  9. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...