The colonization attempt was abandoned. Ponce de León was interred in Puerto Rico; his tomb is in the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan. Subsequent Spanish-led incursions into North ...

Ponce de León's name wasn't tied to the Fountain of Youth until 14 years after his death. The Granger Collection, NYC Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León ...

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 ...

All of the principal settlers including Juan Ponce de León and the New World governor Diego Columbus engaged in this business on a large scale. This industry used primarily Taino Indian labor.

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, ...