Becoming Florida: Discovering the People of Our State’s Past
The year 2021 marks 200 years since Florida’s American era began. Join us as we explore the histories of the people who inhabited Florida before it became a United States territory.
Raise a glass to a great Seminole warrior and say “Hooah”
Coacoochee, called Wildcat by U.S. Army soldiers, led a war of resistance for his people. The Spanish called them the Seminoles. They were scattered groups of Creeks and others from the American Southeast who fled into Spanish Florida.