Punta Gorda, a city filled with natural attractions, has an equally impressive art culture. In many places, art and nature ...

Casey Feindt Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park is the site of St ... in current-day southern Georgia and northern Florida. The Fountain of Youth, a mythical spring believed ...

On this day in 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León came ashore on the Florida coast near present-day St. Augustine and claimed the territory for the Spanish crown. He gave Florida its name, ...

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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.

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 ...

Ponce de Leon's small fleet had been coasting along the Florida Keys or Los Martires as they called them, sailing east and north on the return voyage to Puerto Rico. They had arrived at a place ...

Barnes Completed in the 1880s (replacing the original 1835 lighthouse that was destroyed) and a National Historic Landmark since 1998, the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse & Museum is Florida's ...