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City gates of St. Augustin, Florida circa 1865.

Wagon tracks and gate in St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1865.

It's always encouraging to see that even back in 1877, there were individual explorers who had no idea who was responsible for building certain things. In this case we are talking about several canals in the south-west Florida. Obviously, Florida has way more than just "several" canals...

Juan Ponce de León, the discoverer and first governor of La Florida, established the first European colony in the United States on the west coast of Florida in 1521. Although its location has never been determined, historians have theorized that it likely occurred somewhere in the Charlotte...

Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. Ybor City - Wikipedia The Ybor City smuggling tunnels...

Has history been changed, did we have a 'reset' during the 1700-1800s? Why do buildings all over the world have the same architecture? Why is the nation of Tartaria excluded from our history when it is shown as a huge country on maps just a few hundred years ago? Why do we have unexplained...

There you go... to the “bank”, and from the middle of the paved roadway. What do you think is gonna happen to the tunnel? What drivers believed to be a large pothole in the middle of the road in Pembroke Pines, Florida, turned out to be a hidden underground tunnel that authorities believe...

St. Augustine, Florida was definitely producing some interesting buildings, and all of them have something interesting in common. This time I stumbled into the Casa Monica Hotel. I guess when we were talking about the 1888 Ponce de Leon Hotel, I did not pay proper attention to the material it...

The Ponce de Leon Hotel, was an exclusive luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler and completed in 1888. The hotel was designed in the Spanish Renaissance style as the first major project of the New York architecture...

Just ran into some interesting info within the below 18th century books. What do you think about the following? 1700 Geography rectified; or, a description of the world 1725 Geography Anatomiz'd, Or, The Geographical Grammar As far as we know, the official PTB date for the discovery of...