#floridahistory — Public Fediverse posts

Biscayne Bay Beacon: Coconut Grove Playhouse’s 521 shows now in free digital archive. “Every program and every star from the Coconut Grove Playhouse’s 50-year run is now searchable online, thanks to a digital archive that went live the week of Aug. 17. Arnold Mittelman, the playhouse’s last and longest-serving artistic director, who led the theater for 21 years, spent two and a half years […]

Pompano Beach Airport Florida Postcard.
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#Aviation #Avgeek #Ephemera #Travel #Florida #PompanoBeach #FloridaHistory

Polk County Florida Clerk of Court: Polk County Clerk & Comptroller Preserves Historic Cattle Brand Book for Future Generations. “Polk County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller Stacy M. Butterfield, CPA, is preserving a unique piece of Polk County’s agricultural history through the restoration, preservation, and digitization of the historic Cattle Brand Books. The collection includes […]

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials: Florida DOT Archaeologists ‘Dig’ the Museum Scene. “Florida DOT’s Archaeological Collections & Curation is just getting started as the museum only exists online for now. But the agency is building a template other state departments of transportation could potentially follow as more road and bridge projects uncover more […]

Florida Airlines Timetable Effective April 1, 1981.
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#FloridaAirlines #Timetable #Schedules #Aviation #Avgeek #travel #FloridaHistory

Keys News: Catalog brings local history out of vault. “The Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County’s archive of documents and photographs illustrating the history of the Florida Keys, has a new online catalog providing public access to unique documents in the collection, just in time to start celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.”

Today’s the perfect reminder that home is where the heart is — and my heart’s in Florida. #FloridaStatehoodDay #FloridaStatehoodDay #History #FloridaHistory 🌴🏛️🎉

Explore the rich history of the Seminole Tribe — their origins, cultural traditions, resistance in the Seminole Wars, and how Seminole communities live and thrive today. Learn about resilience, identity, and ongoing cultural revival. #SeminoleHistory #SeminoleTribe #nativeamericanhistory #indigenousculture #FloridaHistory #indigenouslivesmatter #learnnativehistory #Oklahoma https://www.gsnsp.com/seminole-tribe-history/

I've been searching for many years for an authoritative source on #MusaIsle , one of the first great Floridian tourist destinations if not the first, owned by my ancestor John Roop. This is the best I've found yet. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/252653 #FloridaHistory #MiamiHistory #tourism #Seminole

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project: Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized. “Content from the Miami Citizen (1938-1949), Mami Labor Citizen (1949-1956) and the Labor Citizen (1956-1959) have been digitized and are live in Chronicling America! Miami’s Central Labor Union decided to begin publishing a newspaper in March 1918, due to lack of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/the-us-caribbean-florida-digital-newspaper-project-miami-citizen-miami-labor-citizen-and-labor-citizen-now-digitized/

The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project: 35 Years of the Gadsden County Times Digitized. “Over 21,000 pages of the Gadsden County Times from 1928-1963 have been digitized! This is one of the longest runs of newspaper in Chronicling America and documents 35 years of life in Gadsden County. Years 1928-1960 are live in Chronicling America as of May 1, 2025. Years 1961-1963 will be […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/03/the-us-caribbean-florida-digital-newspaper-project-35-years-of-the-gadsden-county-times-digitized/

University of South Florida: USF is digitally preserving Egmont Key’s historic harbor pilot village. “But, for more than a century, it’s also quietly been home to a village of cottages where harbor pilots have stayed while awaiting the call to guide large cargo and passenger ships throughout Tampa Bay’s channels, including to and from Port Tampa Bay, Port St. Pete, SeaPort Manatee and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/university-of-south-florida-usf-is-digitally-preserving-egmont-keys-historic-harbor-pilot-village/

-- J. Freeman Rattenbury's description of Carnival in St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, February 1818, from "Narrative of a voyage to the Spanish Main"

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#InternationalKreweOfToots #MardiGras #Carnival #FloridaHistory #StAugustine #1810s

The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/slavery-desantis-florida-history-gop-b2381746.html

#GOPSlaveryClaim #FloridaHistory #DeSantis #Bootstraps #ReparationsDebate #HistoricalRevisionism #Politics #News

Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/24/florida-slavery-history-ron-desantis/

#FloridaHistory #EnslavedAfricans #SkilledWorkers #RonDesantis #Slavery #AfricanDiaspora #Politics #News

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html