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 ...

But it has long been assumed that, in 1521, Charlotte Harbor was where Juan Ponce de León, the Spanish explorer and supposed seeker of the Fountain of Youth, was mortally wounded while failing to ...

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 ...