Frontier Florida
Domestic history & daily life in pioneer days
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Time collapses in 1869 guidebook
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In the 1970s, UF Press published the Florida Bicentennial Commission's reprint of an 1869 guidebook The reprint edition included a new ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026
A daylong party, 1892 style
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The Tatler newspaper covered entertainment and society news. (Photo credit: St. Augustine Historical Society) Presidents Day 2026 was basica...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
America 250: Florida was loyalist British colony
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The book, The 14th Colony, explains what happened in Florida during the Revolutionary War I'm shifting the blog's time parameters fo...
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Finding frontier joy
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Citrus groves surrounded by pine forests were a common sight in pioneer Florida. Image credit: Florida Memory state archives, https://www.fl...
Friday, November 28, 2025
Pre-Disney Florida hype
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Screengrab from travelfilmarchive YouTube channel's 1950 travelogue about Florida Credit: https://www.youtube.com/@travelfilmarchive Tod...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Miami as you've never known it
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Hard to recognize: Here's what the mouth of the Miami River looked like in an 1869 sketch by Dr. Jeffries Wyman. Image credit: Harvard ...
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Against multiple odds
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This photo of Lawrence B. Brown is from the cover of the book 'From Slavery to Community Builder' Born enslaved in North Florida in ...
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