One of my ancestors found what is referred to as "The Alabama Stone" in the ruins of a small fortication as he was helping his father prepare land for farming. The stone carried an inscription in Latin and what was presumed to be mileage to Mexico.
Would be great to link those things up!
Ping!
That is so cool! It would be so neat to find stuff like that
Right under their feet!
Bkmrk.
I so enjoy reading about the early history of the Gulf Coast. My ancestor, Jean Cadet LaFontaine, arrived in the mid 1600s with other French soldiers on expedition from Canada and by orders of the King. In the journal of their ships’ travels they reported encountering the Spanish at Pensacola. Makes me appreciate just how intertwined our histories are,and how much those brave people endured.
Thanks for posting! We live near Pensacola so I hope the site receives appropriate attention and funding. Perhaps we will get to see it!
Damn illegals have always been a problem!...................
Clearly wrong.
The oldest existing city, perhaps, but certainly not the first continuously populated city.
Call the guy in the article. He would be very interested. Also the head of the history department at UWF in Pensacola. It used to be Judy Bense, but don't know if she's still there.: http://uwf.edu/jbense/
My uncle built houses in the Panama City Fl. area in the 50s and 60s. Specifically he built a lot of them in the Lynn Haven area, which is near a bay. There were a lot of small and even medium sized pieces of indian pottery scattered around on the ground and a few inches under the ground in small mounds of earth. People pretty much ignored them back then.
I remember playing in the woods near one of his houses and finding pieces on the ground covered in leaves and tossing them away. We referred to them as indian pottery, never thought they could have been Spanish. The bay had oysters as well as a lot of mullet and other fish. It was a good area for a camp for certain.
feel sorry for whoever owns the lot. they are so screwed.
Wouldn’t you just love to be the person holding a construction loan on that land? /s
The local idiots declared it an archeological site and stopped all further development stopping what would have been a multimillion dollar jobs creation.
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A “newly cleared lot” means that construction was likely to begin there soon. Whatever the project, it has just come to a screeching halt.
The discovery bolsters Pensacola’s claim as the first European settlement in the modern-day United States, six years before the Spanish reached St. Augustine on Florida’s Atlantic seaboard.
BTTT!
WOW!!! Bump