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"Tampa: A history of the city of Tampa and the Tampa Bay region of Florida". City, County, and Regional Histories E-Book Collection. St. Petersburg Print Co. Harrison, Charles E. (1915). Genealogical records of the pioneers of Tampa and of some who came after them. Hazen, Pauline Brown (1914). The Blue Book and History of Pioneers, Tampa ...
The Acjachemen (/ ɑː ˈ x ɑː tʃ ə m ə m /) are an Indigenous people of California.Published maps often identify their ancestral lands as extending from the beach to the mountains, south from what is now known as Aliso Creek in Orange County to Las Pulgas Canyon in the northwestern part of San Diego County. [2]
The Dunlawton Plantation and its sugar mill date to the latter years of the Second Spanish period in Florida. In August 1804, Patrick Dean, a merchant from the Bahamas, and his uncle John Bunch, a planter from Nassau, were granted by the Spanish Crown land in Florida that had been part of the British Turnbull grant of 1777.
Tocobaga (occasionally Tocopaca) was the name of a chiefdom of Native Americans, its chief, and its principal town during the 16th century. The chiefdom was centered around the northern end of Old Tampa Bay, the arm of Tampa Bay that extends between the present-day city of Tampa and northern Pinellas County.
The name "Tocobaga" is often used to refer to all of the indigenous peoples of the Tampa Bay area during the first Spanish colonial period (1513-1763). In a strict sense, Tocobaga was the name of a chiefdom, its main town, and its chief, all of which were probably centered at the Safety Harbor site at the north end of Old Tampa Bay.
Despite Florida's long history of indigenous and European occupation, the first professional archaeology in south Florida was not conducted until 1869 by Jeffries Wyman of Harvard's Peabody Museum. Prior to 1910, there was no comprehensive law that protected cultural and natural resources until the Antiquities Act of 1906.
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Tampa Reservation was founded in 1980 on nine acres of land. Ruby Tiger Osceola and 17 members of her family moved from Bradenton onto the reservation, at the urging of then-Chief James E. Billie . [ 1 ]