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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.
Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records. 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 ...
The Fort Walton culture continued to exist in the Florida Panhandle to the east of the Pensacola area into the period of European colonization.) Perhaps the best known Pensacola culture site is the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds site, a large site located on a low swampy island north of Mobile, Alabama .
About 1.4 million people lost power during the storm. Later, when Katrina made its devastating landfall along the northern gulf coast, its large circulation produced high tides, light rainfall, and gusty winds along the western Florida panhandle. The hurricane killed 14 people across the state, and damage was estimated at $623 million.
March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office. August 12: Jackson and Duval County, Florida's first two counties are formed. 1824: Florida's first true lighthouse built in St. Augustine.
Florida may have already broken its all-time record of snowfall with 9 inches in the western Panhandle town of Milton, near Pensacola, according to Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National ...
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 ...
The PPHS Board approved a 10-year strategic plan to see the museum building reach its 100th year, capturing history and inspiring the future. WT President writes about Panhandle-Plains Historical ...