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Hotel Ponce de Leon
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ISBN: 0813055598 9780813055596 9780813061498 0813061490 Year: 2015 Publisher: Gainesville

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Keys details the famous Hotel Ponce de Leon building (currently Flagler College) and preservation efforts to reclaim the former hotel to its gilded age glory.


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The Cana sanctuary
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ISBN: 0817386068 9780817386061 9780817317478 0817317473 Year: 2012 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in the path of an expanding American empire. In the late seventeenth century a group of about a dozen escaped African slaves from the English colony of Carolina reached the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. In a diplomatic bid for sanctuary, to avoid extradition and punishment, th


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Setting the table: ceramics, dining, and cultural exchange in Andalucía and La Florida
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ISBN: 1683400275 1683400143 9781683400141 9781683400271 9781683400042 1683400046 Year: 2017 Publisher: Gainesville

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By exploring sites on both sides of the Atlantic and combining archaeological collections and documentary research, Ness considers how individuals in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and in St. Augustine, Florida negotiated the political and cultural changes that followed the advent of the Bourbon dynasty and the extent to which these developments impacted their daily lives.


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If it takes all summer
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ISBN: 0817380663 9780817380663 9780817315993 0817315993 Year: 2008 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation's oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil rights bill the center piece of his domestic policy, chose this tourism-driven community as an ideal location to demonstrate the injustice of discrimination and the complicity of southern leaders in its enforcement. St. Augustine was planning an elaborate celebration of its

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