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  2. History of Florida - Wikipedia

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    A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.

  3. Category:Women of the Stuart period - Wikipedia

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    Women of the Stuart period (1603- 1714). Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. E. 17th-century English women (9 C, 245 P) I.

  4. Stuart period - Wikipedia

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    The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. The period was plagued by internal and religious strife, and a large-scale civil war which resulted in the execution of King Charles I in 1649.

  5. Indigenous peoples of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Florida's environment at the end of the Pleistocene was very different from that of today. Because of the enormous amount of water frozen in ice sheets during the last glacial period, sea level was at least 100 metres (330 ft) lower than now. Florida had about twice the land area.

  6. Stuart, Florida - Wikipedia

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    The Treasure Coast area that became Stuart was first settled by non-Native Americans in 1870. In 1875, a United States Lifesaving Station was established on Hutchinson Island, near Stuart. Today, the station is known as Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge and is on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1893 to 1895, the area was called Potsdam.

  7. History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Wikipedia

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    By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. [3] Bernard Romans reported sighting many abandoned Tequesta villages when he visited the area in the 1770s. [5]

  8. What did Stuart voters say about keeping a museum along the ...

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    Visitors to the museum today can see Parks' potbelly stove among other artifacts from Stuart and Martin County history. More than 10,000 people visited the museum last year. Keith Burbank is ...

  9. History of slavery in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Florida occurred among indigenous tribes and during Spanish rule. Florida's purchase by the United States from Spain in 1819 (effective 1821) was primarily a measure to strengthen the system of slavery on Southern plantations, by denying potential runaways the formerly safe haven of Florida. Florida became a slave state, seceded, and ...