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The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.
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.
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The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
The 1820s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1820, and ended on December 31, 1829. It saw the rise of the First Industrial Revolution . Photography , rail transport , and the textile industry were among those that largely developed and grew prominent over the decade, as technology advanced significantly.
On March 30, 1822, the United States merged East Florida and part of what formerly constituted West Florida into the Florida Territory. [10] William Pope Duval became the first official governor of the Florida Territory and soon afterward the capital was established at Tallahassee , but only after removing a Seminole tribe from the land.
Prospect Bluff Historic Sites (until 2016 known as Fort Gadsden Historic Site, and sometimes written as Fort Gadsden Historic Memorial) [4] is located in Franklin County, Florida, on the Apalachicola River, 6 miles (9.7 km) SW of Sumatra, Florida.
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