Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 officer from Florida to die during the Civil War.
March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office. August 12: Jackson and Duval County, Florida's first two counties are formed. 1824: Florida's first true lighthouse built in St. Augustine.
Location of Bradford County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bradford County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bradford County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Bradford County, Florida" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Bradford County is the name of two counties in the United States: Bradford County, Florida;
For years, beachgoers at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Florida, have unknowingly been walking over a piece of history. Under the sands south of Frank Rendon Park, a wooden object has ...
Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that conquistador , who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called ...
Timeline of Pinellas County, Florida history This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 00:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...