Colonial America started right HERE, 55 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and 42 years before Jamestown! With a long, rich history spanning nearly 500 years, the Fountain of Youth Park will delight and amaze you. This tour highlights our new Spanish Watchtower, the Menendez 1565 Settlement Field, our 600 foot Founders Riverwalk, and the serene beauty of the Park
History of Puerto Rico - XV Century - 1599
1595 On November 22, Sir Francis Drake, hero of the battle of the Spanish Armada, with 26 vessels, in the company of Sir John Hawkins, tried fruitlessly to conquer the island and set San Juan city on fire (battlemap). Thinking he had reached the East Indies, Columbus referred to the native inhabitants of the island as "Indians," a term that was ultimately applied to all indigenous peoples of the New World
Floripedia:De Leon, Ponce
He obtained some gold from the natives, and when he took this back to Cuba and told of the beauty of the country he had visited, many persons were eager to go there. He told wonderful stories of a province in the present limits of South Carolina where the royal family were made giants by a process only understood by certain skillful doctors and nurses
Ponce de Leon - FloridasHistoricCoast.com
The indigenous lifeways of the people before Ponce, as well as that intriguing period in history when New World cultures met old, will be interpreted in St
Timespan Dates: Timespan Title: Timespan Description: 29th Aug, 1459to6th Jul, 1521 Juan Ponce de Leon By Regis Wilson Ponce de Leon wanted to find gold and the Fountain of youth. 26th Oct, 1508 First Settlement Ponce de Leon founded the first settlement in Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon colonized Puerto Rico using just a few troops and one greyhound who scared the natives
The stream passed through the Straits of Florida and shot up the southeastern coast of the United States until it meets a cold current by North Carolina. After asking King Ferdinand of Spain permission to conquer and settle the island of Bimini, Ponce de Leon set sail on a quest for a mythical fountain of youth
His force of 200 men landed on the west coast of Florida, but were met by Native American warriors, who wounded many of the men with arrows, including Ponce de Leon. Ponce de Leon was then given the right to find and take the island of Bimini (in the Bahamas); he was searching for riches and the fountain of youth (a legendary spring that gave people eternal life and health)
Later he was given good land and proved to be an able farmer and rancher.Ponce de Leon and Puerto Rico:Ponce de Leon was given permission to explore and settle the island of San Juan Bautista, today known as Puerto Rico. They also discovered the Gulf Stream.Ponce de Leon in Spain:After the first voyage, Ponce went to Spain to be sure this time that he and he alone had royal permission to explore and colonize Florida
Life of Juan Ponce de Leon
He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). (Niufiez de Guzman had become a confidant and aide of the King.) His conquest of Puerto Rico by Juan Ponce de Leon began in 1508 under a commission granted him on June 15 of that year by the Spanish governor of the West Indies
Credit is due under the terms of this license that can reference both the New World Encyclopedia contributors and the selfless volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Foundation. "Spanish-Indian Relationships: Synoptic History and Archaeological Evidence, 1500-1763," in Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period
Ponce de Leon Discovers Florida
Men like Tristan de Luna, Cabeza de Vaca, and Hernando de Soto followed Ponce de Leon to Florida and reluctantly concluded that major investment in this land was not worthwhile. Confident that he had the direct support of the throne, Menendez became more and more disrespectful of the Casa, who had became increasingly annoyed with his success and honesty
Juan Ponce De Leon
http://jponcedeleon123.blogspot.com/Our clothes are not freshly clean like they always are, our food and water supply is decreasing and people are becoming ill because of these circumstances. Former Hispaniola Governor, Nicolas de Ovando sent me to look for gold and I ended up taking five very large vessels and two hundred people to work with me
Ponce de Leon was actively involved in the Higuey massacre and then in 1508 chosen by the Spanish Crown to lead the conquest and exploitation of the Tainos Indians for gold mining operations. Spanish slave expeditions had been regularly raiding the Bahamas since 1494 and there is some evidence that one or more of these slavers made it as far as the shores of Florida
In any event, he was in the New World no later than 1502.Farmer and Landowner:Ponce was on the Island of Hispaniola in 1504 when native Indians attacked a Spanish settlement. The expedition explored much of the coast of Florida and several of the islands between Florida and Puerto Rico, such as the Florida Keys, Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas
Part of his mission was to bring order to a badly deteriorating situation that had been developing on the islands under the deplorably incompetent management of Christopher Columbus. His expert handling of the situation on Hispaniola won him great favor from his superior, de Ovando, and high marks from high government officials back in Spain
Ponce de Leon discovers Florida - Apr 02, 1513 - HISTORY.com
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He then returned to Puerto Rico and made his way to Spain, where he was named military governor of Bimini and Florida and given permission to colonize the region. Thinking it was the island he sought, he sailed back to colonize the region in 1521, but was fatally wounded in an Indian attack soon after his arrival
American Journeys Background on History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida: Source Records
He then coasted up the west side of the peninsula as far as the modern city of Naples before turning back to Puerto Rico, where he arrived on September 21, 1513. When they landed near present-day Charlotte Harbor or Tampa Bay, however, Indian resistance was so fierce that it drove the two hundred Spanish colonists back to their vessels
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