In 1947, a 5,600-acre tract of land was deeded to the state for preservation as Collier-Seminole State Park. According to ...

Rep. Patt Maney has secured $250,000 in funding for the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute to research and find a lost fort from 1800s Okaloosa County.

The Spanish noted that slavery in Florida had been abolished in 1693. During the first of two so-called Seminole Wars, Blacks and Indians fought side by side against American incursion into the ...

In Florida, American troops clash with Native Americans led by Osceola; the Seminole people are reduced to 350 in number by 1842. 1838-1839: Aroostook War The U.S. fights an undeclared war with ...

The steam sloops of war, Richmond, Dacotah, and Seminole, are fitting out for the Mediterranean, East Indies, and Braz I stations respectively. The Richmond and Dacotah are models of their kind ...

This 1836-1838 map of South Georgia was drawn by Dr. Jacob Rhett Motte (1811-1868), an Army surgeon who accompanied Major ...

Ingrid Burton Nathan, the first Black student to integrate Seminole County Public Schools in 1964, recently discovered her mother's significant role in an all-Black female unit during World War II.