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Central Florida BBQ Festival [21] Sebring: Highlands 1 Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival [22] Fellsmere: Indian River Wild game 1 Taste of Pine Island [23] Pine Island: Lee Various 1 Florida Keys Seafood Festival [24] Key West: Monroe Seafood 1 Great Southern Gumbo Cook-off [25] Sandestin: Okaloosa Gumbo 1 Sunshine Regional Chili Cook-Off [26 ...
Holocene calendar: 11528: Igbo calendar: 528–529: Iranian calendar: 906–907: Islamic calendar: 934–935: Japanese calendar: Daiei 8 / Kyōroku 1 (享禄元年) Javanese calendar: 1446–1447: Julian calendar: 1528 MDXXVIII: Korean calendar: 3861: Minguo calendar: 384 before ROC 民前384年: Nanakshahi calendar: 60: Thai solar calendar ...
October 7, 1837 – The Racer's Storm moves inland to the west of the state, causing moderate damage along the Florida Panhandle. [29] September 7, 1838 – A hurricane strikes near Key Biscayne, killing 38 people. [5] September 14, 1841 – The town of St. Joseph is destroyed by a hurricane hitting the Florida Panhandle. [30]
The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). [2] [3] [4] This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting ...
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
Pensacola (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ə ˈ k oʊ l ə / PEN-sə-KOH-lə) is a city in the Florida Panhandle in the United States. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County.The population was 54,312 at the 2020 census. [6]
The Pensacola culture peoples first contact with Europeans may have been with the Narváez expedition in 1528. Cabeza de Vaca reported that the Native Americans they encountered in the vicinity of what is now Pensacola Bay were of "large stature and well formed," and lived in permanent houses. The chief wore a robe of what de Vaca called "civet ...
The river was the boundary between East Florida and West Florida during the British Florida period (1763–1783) and the second Spanish Florida period (1783–1821). By modern land route it is 198 miles (319 km) from Pensacola and 271 miles (436 km) from St. Augustine .