Early Spanish Visits to Southwest Florida – Randell Research Center https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/early-spanish-visits-to-southwest-florida/
The official discovery and naming of “La Florida� in 1513 by former Puerto Rican governor Juan Ponce de León marked only the beginning of Spanish visitation to Southwest Florida, and indeed the first decade after contact seems to have been a busy one. Although he was named Adelantado of Flo
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