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Serengeti Express locomotive details [3] Number Image Wheel arrangement Date built Builder Date entered service Status Notes 4 4-4-0 (American) 1971 Crown Metal Products 1971 Out of service 1890s African-themed. [2] Painted in green livery. 5 4-4-0 (American) 1970 Crown Metal Products 1980s Operational Painted in yellow livery.
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (c. 1536 – after 1575, dates uncertain) was a Spanish shipwreck survivor who lived among the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years. His c. 1575 memoir, Memoria de las cosas y costa y indios de la Florida, is one of the most valuable contemporary accounts of American Indian life from that period.
The expedition of some 300 men, led by the newly appointed adelantado (governor) of La Florida, Pánfilo de Narváez, [4] left Cuba in February 1528 intending to go to Isla de las Palmas near present-day Tampico, Mexico, to establish two settlements. Storms and strong winds forced the fleet to the western coast of Florida.
Explorers of Spanish Florida (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Explorers of Florida" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Diego Miruelo, was an explorer and pilot who explored Florida's west coast in 1516. He may have been the first European to sail into Pensacola Bay, where he obtained some gold from the people he encountered there.
Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1273-5. Milanich, Jerald T. (1995). Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1360-7. Milanich, Jerald T. (1998). Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present ...
The size and shape of Florida, along with its natural features like reefs, shoals, water depth, currents, locations of rivers and inlets and the weather, have affected where people lived and where vessels wrecked. Florida has some of the best natural harbors in the country, resulting in the state becoming an international maritime crossroads.