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Muspas - People living in southwestern Florida in the first half of the 19th century, at one time believed to be remnants of the Calusa. [ 57 ] Rancho Indians - Native American people and people of mixed native American and Spanish ancestry worked and lived at seasonal fishing ranchos (fishing camps) established by Spanish/Cuban fishermen along ...
People First is the state's self-service, secure, web-based Human Resource Information System and enterprise-wide suite of human resource services. The main website used to access the People First system is https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com. The system currently supports more than 200,000 users. [8]
At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes. (Anthropologist Henry F. Dobyns has estimated that as many as 700,000 people lived in Florida in 1492). [ 15 ]
The economy of the state of Florida is the fourth-largest in the United States, with a $1.647 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2024. [241] If Florida were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank as the world's 15th-largest economy according to the International Monetary Fund, ahead of Spain and behind South Korea.
Florida has become the first state to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “The Gulf of America” following in lockstep with Donald Trump’s explosive inaugural speech, according to an official ...
The first European known to have encountered Florida was Juan Ponce de León, who claimed the land as a possession of Spain in 1513. St. Augustine, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the continental U.S., was founded on the northeast coast of Florida in 1565.
Households leaving Florida for this state: 26,876. Individuals leaving Florida for this state: 48,301. Average AGI of households moving out of Florida: $69,096. Net households moved into Florida ...
Once considered the ideal place to live out one's golden years, Florida is quickly losing favor with retirement-aged folks. Remote workers and the wealthy are flocking to the state and driving up ...