[sunrico90]

Name the castle?

[blissblessed1]

or fort? St. Augustine?

[sunrico90]

Originally Posted by blissblessed1

or fort? St. Augustine?

You got it, your turn to make us think......

[blissblessed1]

hmm. ok, no way to download photos here. Who named Miami and what is it translated from?

[doggiebus]

The city's name Miami is probably derived from “Mayaimi,” a Calusa (Tequesta) Indian word for “big water.”

[sunrico90]

Originally Posted by blissblessed1

hmm. ok, no way to download photos here. Who named Miami and what is it translated from?

The area in which the city of Miami, Florida would later be founded by Europeans was inhabited for more than a thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and his men first visited and claimed the area around Miami for Spain in 1566

The Miami area was better known as “Biscayne Bay Country”

[firemed]

The first Floridians were the American Indians. Some twenty-five thousand years before the birth of Christ, when North America was still inhabited by prehistoric beasts, small tribes of primitive hunters crossed the frozen wastelands of the Bering Strait from Asia to the Americas. After countless generations of traveling southward into warmer climates and eventually eastward, some of these hunters arrived in Florida.
Florida was probably one of the last places in the Americas to have human inhabitants although every year earlier and earlier remains of first Floridians are discovered in springs such as Warm Mineral Springs, south of Sarasota. These early Paleo-Indians (c. 12000 B.C. to 7500 B.C.) were nomadic hunters, using crude spears and arrows of flint and stone. The fire drill was their highest technology. In the mild climate of Florida, they settled in their small huts of animal furs and started a more stable existence.

[firemed]

Originally Posted by sunrico90

The area in which the city of Miami, Florida would later be founded by Europeans was inhabited for more than a thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and his men first visited and claimed the area around Miami for Spain in 1566

The Miami area was better known as “Biscayne Bay Country”

The Spanish had found in Pedro Menendez de Aviles the patient adelantado needed to develop a lasting community on the Florida peninsular. In the important early years, Menendez personally developed the struggling settlement atSt. Augustine and since he could keep the position for as long as he wished, provided the continuity the colony needed.
Menendez's first goal after the defeat of the French was to gain the friendship of the native Floridians. After years of mistreatment by conquistadores, the Indians had reason to fear the European settlement. In the winter of 1566, Menendez took a small fleet around the state. He had two motives. First, his son had been shipwrecked in the Gulf and hoped to find him. Second, he wanted to sign the first treaty ever made with the Calusa. He was successful in the latter goal when the Calusa accepted a trade of Spanish gold and sailors for more useful cloth and trading items. The Spanish, of course, had more than religious and cultural conversion as goals in their Indian policy. The Indians would provide a free labor supply to grow crops and raise livestock for the coastal settlements.

Within two years Menendez fortified the Atlantic coast line. He constructed stone forts at St. Augustine and San Mateo (Fort Caroline) and wooden outposts at Santa Elena and San Felipe in present-day South Carolina. He built watchtowers at Cape Canaveral and Biscayne Bay to locate endangered treasure ships and pirate vessels. The entire system provided the Spanish gold fleets with the added protective barrier against coastal raiders.

Despite Menendez's coastal plan, Florida was still a dangerous frontier outpost. When the adelantado visited Spain to recruit settlers, a revengeful French trader named Dominic de Gourgues, with the help of the Timucuans under a revengeful Saturiba, attacked and destroyed San Mateo.

[blissblessed1]

you got it doggie bus! The first recorded name was Chequescha, from the Tequesta tribe. Mayaimis, the Calusas. Both closely related.

Who's up next?

[sunrico90]

The first major alteration to the Capitol took place on what year ?