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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.
Apalachee Province was the area in the Panhandle of the present-day U.S. state of Florida inhabited by the Native American peoples known as the Apalachee at the time of European contact. The southernmost extent of the Mississippian culture , the Apalachee lived in what is now Leon County , Wakulla County and Jefferson County . [ 1 ]
The Florida panhandle was mostly wilderness before 1814. Its population at the time is unknown, except for isolated reports. Its population at the time is unknown, except for isolated reports. As in the rest of Florida, there were many Native American refugees from the United States, who merged into a new ethnicity, Seminoles .
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.
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.
The Bored Panda team has scoured the internet to find some of the most stunning colorized photos from the 1940s. These beautiful images breathe new life into the past, turning historical moments ...
The late Archaic Elliott's Point complex, found in the Florida panhandle from the delta of the Apalachicola River westward, may have been related to the Poverty Point culture. [25] The area around Tampa Bay and southwest Florida (from Charlotte Harbor to the Ten Thousand Islands ) each had as yet unnamed late Archaic regional cultures using ...
A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being arrested ...