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 ...

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, ...

Tuesday, he will put on a costume and portray Don Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spaniard who first landed on Florida. Ponce claims he is a relative of Ponce de Leon's. Ponce said a genealogical study ...

Folks who reported an appearance of Ponce de Leon last year in Times Square may have been tipsy. But they weren't seeing things. It was Light, dressed in his conquistador finery. Golden hands out ...