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Period: Jul 16, 1000 to Jul 16, 1500
Pre History of Florida People
prehistory of Florida Indians
About 12,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age ended, the first people moved onto the land now known as Florida. From then until about AD 1500 is called “prehistory,” before Europeans made contact with Florida’s natives and began recording their history. Archaeologists divide this prehistory into three cultural periods: Paleo-Indian Period (10000 to 7500 BC): The earliest people lived in a dry -
Period: Jul 16, 1500 to
Timucua Calusa indians - Pre European Settlement
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Jul 16, 1513
First recorded European Contact in Charlotte Harbor
Florida's Lost TribesEuropeans first explored the area in the early 16th century. Ponce de Leon arrived in Charlotte Harbor in 1513, after landing in St. Augustine and returned again in 1521 The first recorded contact was in 1513, when a Spanish expedition landed at Charlotte Harbor, just to the south. When the Spaniards encountered the natives, they insulted them in Spanish before a preemptive attack. Europeans found a thriving population, which they categorized into separate tribes: see link -
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Seminole Indians
As the early tribes disappeared, bands of other native people took their place about 1750. These arrivals from Alabama and Georgia were of varied ancestry, but the Europeans called them all “Creeks.” In Florida, they became known as the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, differentiated primarily by their language. -
English Gained Control of Florida
Old MapsB 1763, Spain traded Florida to Great Britain in exchange for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War. y 1763, when the English gained control of Florida, most of the native population had died from warfare, enslavement, or European diseases. The several hundred who remained were said to have migrated to Cuba with the Spanish. -
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Seminole Wars
The Seminoles clashed with American settlers over land and over escaped slaves who found refuge among the Seminoles. They resisted the government’s efforts to move them to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Between 1818 and 1858, three wars were fought between Seminoles and the United States government. The descendants of the Seminoles and Miccosukees who refused to surrender or leave are now part of Florida’s modern economy. -
United States sought to force removal of the Florida Indians to west of the Mississippi River
The Calusa and Seminole Peoples Resistance to removal led to conflict and the 1836-1842 Second Seminole War. Many of the native peoples were ultimately removed to Oklahoma, but several hundred people resisted and retreated into the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. -
Bertha Honore Palmer Born
A Businesswoman in a Man's Worldshe was born in Louisville, Kentucky as the daughter of a prosperous businessman, Henry Honore. Bertha Honore led a privileged, educated and rewarding life, uncommon to many women during that time. When she was six, her family moved to Chicago, where she did all of her studies. Through the many years, Bertha became an exceptional writer, savvy Politician, talented administrator, a proficient linguist, and skilled musician. -
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Cattle
From the 1850's to the early 1900's cattle grazed freely on the dry prairie. This vast land of grasses and low shrubs was dotted with thousands of wetlands. -
Bertha Marries Potter Palmer
Potter Palmer was a smart and wealthy Chicago Real Estate Developer, and with the help and support of his wife, their success flourished, even the Depression and a devastating fire. Bertha had two sons, Honore and Potter II. -
Queen of Chicago
Back when women had few rights and power, she helped mend and strengthen the lives of common women with the help of the Chicago’s Women’s Club. this club was an organization that lobbied for fair treatment of women and children.They also supported kindergartens (the transition period from preschool to first grade) until the city made them part of the school system. -
Jesse Knight
Jesse Knightn the late 1800s, this area was an open cattle range. Early settler Jesse Knight forged a trail between the Myakka area and Horse & Chaise (which eventually became Venice). A portion of the original trail was found running through what is now Knight’s Trail Park in Nokomis, hence the park’s name. -
Bertha Honoré Palmer chaired the Board of Lady Managers for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
bringing attention to the “progress of women,” she gave an address at the opening of the Woman’s Building that did not mince words about the state of working women in the United States. -
Mrs. Palmer inherits 8 Million Dollars in Chicago
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Bertha Palmer arrived in Sarasota
Bertha Palmer arrived in Sarasota, via rail and water transport in February, 1910. She traveled in a private railroad car with her two sons: Potter II and Honorè, her father, Henry Hamilton Honorè, her brother, Adrian, her general manager, W.A. Sumner, her secretary, and a coterie of servants. -
Palmer Reads Add in Paper about Sarasota Land by Joseph H Lord
A Conversation with Bertha PalmerMrs. Palmer decides to travel to SRQ: With father, brother Adrian two sons and servents they travel to Sarasota to look at the land. -
Mrs. Bertha Palmer
Mrs. Bertha PalmerOne particular parcel in the Myakka River Valley was owned by Garrett Murphy at the time that Mrs. Bertha Palmer went to see firsthand the pristine beauty of the area. Mrs. Palmer was escorted via horse and buggy by A. B. Edwards, the same gentleman who facilitated her 60,000-acre land purchase in Venice. She was greatly impressed with the natural countryside around her. As the story is told, in 1910, she bought 6,000 acres and 3,000 head of cattle from Mr. Murphy without even getting out of her -
Railroad
Mrs. Palmer - Railroad Establishing a winter home on the bay at Osprey, she and her family soon purchased thousands of acres in what was then Manatee County. Some of the land was south of Roberts Bay. In 1911 Palmer prevailed on the Seaboard Air Line Railway to extend its tracks 16.5 miles from Fruitville through Bee Ridge to a point south of Roberts Bay and to name the terminal Venice. -
Bertha Honoré Palmer contributed $2,000 in bonds for the construction of the Sarasota Woman’s Club.
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Mrs. Palmer Ships 1000 Cattle Shippment
1,000 head of cattle that same year, requiring 31 rail cars to transport. It was the largest cattle shipment in the county at that time. Bertha Honoré Palmer shipped the largest-ever herd of cattle, at this time, from Manatee County. It took thirty-one Seaboard Airline Railway cars to ship one thousand head of cattle. -
Palmer was made a vice-president of the Florida State Live Stock Association
Her continued interest in livestock brought pure-bred hogs to the region. -
The Get-Together Club becomes the Bee Ridge Woman’s Club.
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Mrs Potter Dies
More infoAfter Mrs. Palmer’s death, Meadow Sweet Pastures became part of her estate. A. B. Edwards loved to spend time in the Myakka River Valley and became the central figure in eventually procuring the area for permanent public enjoyment. Mr. Edwards, in association with the local Fresh Water Fish and Game Protection Association, brought the idea of a state park to Florida’s Internal Improvement Fund. They were ultimately persuaded to purchase more than 17,000 acres for 37 1/2 cents an acre from the A. -
May 5, 1918, Bertha Honoré Palmer dies from breast cancer.
In 1918 Bertha Honoré Palmer investigated the use of solar heating in her facilities. -
Mrs. Palmers Son Manage her estate
more info Honoré and Potter Palmer aided in the formation of the Sarasota-Fruitville drainage district near Fruitville. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CE4QFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftriangleinn.org%2F Other portions of her land she left to her brother, Adrian Honore, became the foundation for Myakka State Park, due to the efforts of A. B. Edwards and Judge Paul Albritton. -
Dream for Myakka - Edwards & Judge Albritton
A. B. EdwardsTogether, they worked to convince state officials that this land was a priceless heritage of Florida and that it must be publicly owned to preserve it. In September 1934, they succeeded in persuading the Internal Improvement Fund of the state to purchase 17,500 acres from the estate of Adrian C. Honore, brother of Mrs. Potter Palmer for 37 ½ cents an acre. -
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Between 1934 and 1941, the Civilian Conservation Corps, with help from the National Park Service and Florida Park Service, constructed facilities and developed the park. -
Oscar Manigo helped turn a 'jungle' into a treasure
Oscar ManigoAt the start of 1937, Oscar Manigo found himself in Sarasota or, rather, in the woods to the east of town, among a group of 200 or so young men from all over the country whose job it was to build Myakka River State Park. Like most of them, Manigo had never been away from home before. Like all of them, he was black. -
Myakka State Park Opens
As a result of the cooperative efforts of the Palmer family and the State of Florida, on February 18, 1941 Myakka River State Park opened. One of Florida's oldest and largest state parks. Covering 28875 acres, it is also one of the states largest natural areas.
