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San Diego de Helaca/Laca, later moved to San Diego de Salamototo (on St. Johns River) 30.03227, -81.66331 [45] [46] (on St. Johns River as San Diego de Salamatoto) Acuera: 1645–1689 [47] San Diego de Satuache 31.89, -81.20083: Guale: 1616–1675 [48] San Felipe de Alabe [M] Guale: 1616–1655 [49] San Felipe (on Cumberland Island) Mocama ...
San Juan: D.G. Brinton first suggested in his 1859 Notes on the Floridian Peninsula that Suwannee was a corruption of the Spanish San Juan. [2] This theory is supported by Jerald Milanich , who states that "Suwannee" developed through "San Juan-ee" from the 17th century Spanish mission of San Juan de Guacara, located on the Suwannee River.
A mission named San Carlos de Sabacola was established in the town before 1686. The mission last appears in Spanish records in 1690. The mission town may have included Chatots from the earlier mission of San Carlos de los Chacatos in present-day Jackson County, Florida. [56] [57] San Felipe was a mission on Cumberland Island listed in 1676.
The Town of Branford was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1961, although it's been settled since the late 1800s, and was expanded and renamed in 1886. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The original name was " Rowland’s Bluff " in the late 19th century when the settlement consisted of a sawmill and a ferry crossing across the Suwannee River into ...
San Juan del Puerto was a Spanish Franciscan mission founded before 1587 on Fort George Island, near the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded to serve the Saturiwa, a Timucua tribe who lived around the mouth of the St. Johns. It was organized by separating them into nine smaller villages.
The word "Suwannee" may either be a corruption of the Spanish San Juan ("Saint John") or from the Cherokee sawani ("echo river"). During the American Civil War, Company K of the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment was composed almost entirely of men from Suwannee County. In 1884, Florida's volunteer militia was reorganized and the Suwanee Rifles were ...
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Smith led the San Juan Expedition via the Hole in the Rock Trail, establishing the settlement of Bluff. Smith remained president of the San Juan Mission until 1882. In April 1880, Smith became a member of the LDS Church's Council of Fifty. After his term as president of the San Juan Mission, the LDS Church asked Smith to move to Colorado. From ...