Journey Through Florida

 My news source is News4Jax. The title of the article is Realtors say buyers are reluctant to purchase homes due to constant property insurance hikes . The article was published on April 23, 2023, at 9:01pm and updated on April 24, 2023, at 12:22pm. This article is about the whole state of Florida. The people who are involved are those who own homeowners insurance and people buying homes. This is affecting the entire state of Florida. The plan was signed last week (week of April 16) and will be in effect in October of 2023. Starting in October of 2023 insurers will collect assessments from policyholders and send the money to Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. Some realtors are having a hard time selling homes, condos, and trailers because some people have a set budget. People in the state of Florida are not happy to hear their insurance rates are increasing. It's frustrating for others whose insurance is going up to help fund homes that were affected by natural disasters even ...

On Saturday, April 15, 2023, Lyndi and I went to Fort Clinch. I was talking with Lyndi when she asked me if I have ever been to Fort Clinch or Amelia Island, I have not until Saturday. We were at the Fort for an hour, arrived at 1:50pm, and left at 2:50pm. Since Lyndi grew up on and around Amelia Island and had to been to Fort Clinch numerous times she knew a lot about the place. We started in the museum where there were things that were found at the abandoned fort. Then we walked around the Fort starting with the lower rank soldiers' quarters, then she took me to one of their dungeons. We then walked up to an outlook, they would use it to see oncoming enemies and look down into the fort. We walked around and saw 4 of the kitchens the fort has, the place they would go to the bathroom, and storage rooms that would hold their ammunition and weapons, we went up to where the cannons were and then we saw where the higher-ranked soldiers would stay. While we were there we learned ...

This week I listened to a podcast about draining the Everglades and read chapter 16, which is titled The First Developers. Out of all the things I could talk about this week I wanted to talk about something that is important. I truly believe the Everglades are important. At the end of the Ice Age, the Everglades became what we know it now. The Everglades came to be about 5,000 years ago. The Everglades exist because Florida gets a lot of rain, there is a lake that overflows into the Everglades known as Lake Okeechobee, and there is not that much elevation throughout the southern part of Florida. Before the Everglade was damaged by humans, the size of the Everglades was huge. The Everglades is larger than the state of Connecticut and the entire size of the watershed system, aka the waterways, is twice the size of New Jersey. When agriculture came into the land, the fertilizers and other chemicals ran into the Everglades causing havoc on the ecosystem. Buckingham Smith was the first pers...

The author of the textbook is also the editor, Michael Gannon. The book, "The History of Florida”, was created by 23 historians along with Michael to tell the history of Florida. The author that helped write this section is Jerrell H. Shofner. The contributor's section of the textbook, it talks about Jerrell. He is a retired professor of history at the University of Central Florida and in 1995 became an editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly. Two things that were in desperate need of reconstruction were the economy and the government in Florida. "There was no government. After Governor John Milton killed himself, Union General Edward McCook had suppressed efforts to reorganize a civil government."(1). "there was no economy. Money and credit had disappeared with the fall of the Confederacy. The means of production had ended with the abolition of slavery.”(2). "It was planting time, and while the new president pondered the situation, something had ...

The location of Fort Mose Historic State Park is in St. Augustine. My brother, Michael, and I went on March 23rd of 2023. We arrived at the park at Noon and left at 1pm. We spent an hour walking around the park. My brother and I walked down the Walkway to Freedom, and we enjoyed the swamp water full of tadpoles. My brother couldn’t believe that the wetlands we were seeing were not there when the fort was active, it was farming ground. As we were walking around we read every sign that was up talking about the history of Fort Mose. I can and can't imagine what it was like when it was an active fort. Seeing some of the photos of what it was like back then is amazing and brings it to life, but it's hard to imagine a life you never experienced. This fort was mentioned in chapter 10 of our reading. "The invaders took the town and port of Fernandina on Amelia Island, and by mid-April they were encamped at the site of Fort Mose, two miles north of St. Augustine, when Presid...

The author is also the editor, Michael Gannon. The book, "The History of Florida”, was created by 23 historians along with Michael to tell the history of Florida. The authors that helped write this section are Susan Richbourg Parker and William S. Cooker. There is no issue of "perspective" in regard to the Anglo writings of the Spanish Government. The Anglos have a different belief than the Spanish Government. "David J. Weber observed that Englishmen and Anglo-Americans writing at the time of the Second Spanish Period "uniformly condemned Spanish rule." They saw only Spanish misgovernment, which "seemed the inevitable result of the defective character of Spaniards themselves.” more recent attention to Spanish-language documents questions that negative assessment.”(1). "These former British subjects joined Spanish soldiers and returning families, their slaves, free blacks, white and black immigrants from the United States, refugees of both races ...