James MacDougald believes he has rewritten Florida history and added further intrigue to the early story of the Tampa Bay area. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is considered the first successful ...

After Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Bahamas in 1492, an ensuing number of European expeditions were organized to explore and settle the New World. During the quarter century after Columbus ...

Of all the outlandish myths about Florida’s outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth. But evidence ...

On this day in 1514, the Spanish crown granted the explorer Juan Ponce de León a contract to settle the islands of Bimini and Florida — Ponce de León at the time believed Florida was also an island.

Ponce de Leon never found it, but he might have been looking in the right place. Five hundred years after the great Spanish explorer headed to Florida — rumored to be the home of the fabled “Fountain ...

Collier County has its own frigid history, especially with the role it played during the Cold War with its proximity to Cuba.

The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve unveiled the Ponce Educational Exhibit as the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leons landing in Florida was celebrated in 2013. MIAMI ...

Dozens of surfers caught some waves Saturday morning in Jacksonville Beach with the help of Brooks Rehabilitation’s Adaptive Sports and Recreation program. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – James MacDougald ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - James MacDougald believes he has rewritten Florida history and added further intrigue to the early story of the Tampa Bay area. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is ...

Ponce de Leon is a town in Holmes County, Florida, with a population of 497. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single adult ...

MIAMI — Of all the outlandish myths about Florida's outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth. But ...