Florida was born on April 2nd 1513 and turned 500
years old today April 2nd 2013.
However, there might be a little confusion to this
statement because the original people living here when Juan Ponce de León
landed on the East Coast of the area.
Two years later a town was named Saint Augustine and
is now called the country's oldest city. Again a little confusion on the part
of the Europeans? Cities (Villages) were on this land long before the Spanish,
Dutch, French, English and all of the rest of the Europeans arrived to
"Claim this land"! Where are the ordinal people of Florida now?
Hundreds of thousands of Indians already called Florida home when
Europeans first arrived in the early 16th century. But it did not take long for
the ensuing wars, slave trade and European diseases to nearly wipe out the
aboriginal population.
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