Aquatic Preserves
Acquatic Preserves - Managed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas (CAMA). There are 45 sites totaling nearly five million acres of submerged lands. There is a Map of Aquatic Preserves by Region, an Alphabetical List of Aquatic Preserves, a CAMA Map showing all CAMA sites in Florida, Aquatic Preserves At-A-Glance (2006 edition) and Management Plans.
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- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Currently viewable in full-text are newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. There is a list of available newspapers. Among the Florida titles are: the Arcadia Champion, the Deland News, the Deland Weekly News, the De Soto County News, the Florida Agriculturist, Fort Pierce News, Gainesville Daily Sun, Gainesville Star, Gulf Coast Breeze (Crawfordville), the New Enterprise (Madison), the Pensacola Journal, the Punta Gorda Herald and the St. Lucie County Tribune.
- University of Mississippi oral history project "pays homage to the men and women who have long worked the water, tonging for oysters, casting nets for shrimp and fish, and cultivating soft-shell crabs."
"Thirty vessels have lately been lost on the coast of Florida, within 60 leagues of St. Augustine: among them the Dolphin, Stevens, from Carolina for Antiqua; the Elizabeth, Hutchins, and the Sea Flower, which two last were flags of truce, of and from Carolina for Cape Francois; also the Seymour, on her return with English prisoners; and the Fewer, a flag of truce, from Carolina to St. Augustine." (Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 18, June 1748, p. 283);
Toney Proctor, a free coloured man, died at Tallahasse, Florida, on the 16th of June last, aged 112. He was at the battle of Quebec, as the servant of an English officer, in 1759, which is ninety-six years ago. He was also at the beginning of the revolutionary war in the vicinity of Boston, at the time the tea was thrown overboard, and afterwards present at the battle of Lexington. Proctor went to Florida when it was a Spanish settlement, and settled in St. Augustine, where he purchased his freedom, married, and reared a large family. W. W." (Notes and Queries, Vol. 12, no. 306, Sept 8, 1855, p. 195);
"Charles Town, in Carolina, Feb. 12. General Oglethrope has taken the Spanish Forts of Picolah and St Francis de la Padia, the first he burnt to the Ground, and imprisoned 11 Spaniards and one Negro who remained in the latter Garrison. The Council and Assembly of this Province have granted 120,000 Currancy for raising a Troop of Horse and 400 Pioneers to assist the General in his intended Enterprize against St. Augustine." (Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 10, Apr 1740, p. 203); "The Castle is built of Soft Stone, with 4 Bastions, the Curtain 60 Yards in length, the Parapet 9 Feet thick, the Rampart 20 Feet high, Casemated underneath for Lodgings, arched over, and newly made Bomb-Proof; and they have been for sometime working on a cover'd Way, which is near finished. This Fort has 50 Pieces of Cannon mounted on it, 16 of which are Brass and some 24 Pounders...About 7 Leagues below Fort St. Augustine are two Forts, the one on the North and the other on the South Side of a large Lake; General Oglethorpe, in a late Expedition, has destroyed the last, and taken Possession of the first, which held some pieces of Cannon and was defended only by one Sergeant and 10 private Men, who surrendered upon the second firing. This Fort is called Manchicolis, surrounded with strong Palisadoes above 8 foot high, with Loopholes about 7 foot high from the Surface of the Ground without; within there is a Parapet near 3 foot high which makes the Loopholes about breast high. The General ordered a Ditch to be made round it, leaving 30 Men and a Boat well mann'd to guard it, with a Design to straiten the Spaniards in St. Augustine, who some time before had made an Excursion and surprized some of our People. But it is to be feared that Fort is strong enought to baffle all his Attempts." (Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 10, May 1740, p. 242). Great Britain declared war against Spain in October, 1739. For additional information on Oglethorpe in Florida, see chapter 15, starting on page 190, in History of Florida from its discovery by Ponce de Leon, in 1512, to the close of the Florida war, in 1842 ....
Cornell also has The Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1901