Historic Spanish Point, Osprey, Florida
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Historic Spanish Point
At Historic Spanish Point, you can explore 30 incredibly beautiful acres of history, natural splendor, and archaeological mystery. At this irreplaceable outdoor museum on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida, you’ll find ways to enjoy your regular afternoons and weekends on the paths and porches of the campus, you’ll see scheduled concerts and lectures, and if you’d like, you’ll attend meetings, luncheons and festivals throughout the year.
Many visitors at Historic Spanish Point love to experience the gardens throughout the grounds. Mrs. Potter Palmer’s Jungle Walk, the beautiful and lush Sunken Garden, and the Butterfly Garden, which is one of the largest on the Gulf Coast, are all very popular attractions.
At Historic Spanish Point, you’ll see how Florida’s intrepid pioneer homesteaders built and ran Sarasota’s first produce packing house, you will encounter a charming chapel, pioneer cemetery, and the beautifully preserved Guptill House, which was built in 1901.
Historic Spanish Point provides an opportunity to learn about the prehistory of Southwest Florida. “A Window to the Past,” is the only archaeological exhibition in the United States that is built inside of an ancient shell mound.
At Guptill Boat Yard, visitors can enjoy maritime tales or take a kayak or paddleboard out and explore both the mangroves and the secluded waters of Little Sarasota Bay.
It’s always fun to bring your dogs with you when you come to Historic Spanish Point. The 30 acres of shaded walkways and trails make it a beautiful place to spend time with your favorite pup.
Historic Spanish Point is a true Old Florida oasis. It is an enjoyable and fun place that is absolutely worth preserving for our community and for future generations. Come and explore the beauty and mystery of Historic Spanish Point, which is open daily! You’ll have a great time!
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Historic Spanish Point
At Historic Spanish Point, you can explore 30 incredibly beautiful acres of history, natural splendor, and archaeological mystery. At this irreplaceable outdoor museum on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida, you’ll find ways to enjoy your regular afternoons and weekends on the paths and porches of the campus, you’ll see scheduled concerts and lectures, and if you’d like, you’ll attend meetings, luncheons and festivals throughout the year.
Many visitors at Historic Spanish Point love to experience the gardens throughout the grounds. Mrs. Potter Palmer’s Jungle Walk, the beautiful and lush Sunken Garden, and the Butterfly Garden, which is one of the largest on the Gulf Coast, are all very popular attractions.
At Historic Spanish Point, you’ll see how Florida’s intrepid pioneer homesteaders built and ran Sarasota’s first produce packing house, you will encounter a charming chapel, pioneer cemetery, and the beautifully preserved Guptill House, which was built in 1901.
Historic Spanish Point provides an opportunity to learn about the prehistory of Southwest Florida. “A Window to the Past,” is the only archaeological exhibition in the United States that is built inside of an ancient shell mound.
At Guptill Boat Yard, visitors can enjoy maritime tales or take a kayak or paddleboard out and explore both the mangroves and the secluded waters of Little Sarasota Bay.
It’s always fun to bring your dogs with you when you come to Historic Spanish Point. The 30 acres of shaded walkways and trails make it a beautiful place to spend time with your favorite pup.
Historic Spanish Point is a true Old Florida oasis. It is an enjoyable and fun place that is absolutely worth preserving for our community and for future generations. Come and explore the beauty and mystery of Historic Spanish Point, which is open daily! You’ll have a great time!
HOURS
Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last tickets sold at 4 p.m.).
Sunday: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (last tickets sold at 4 p.m.)
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337 N. Tamiami Tr., Osprey, FL 34229
Phone: 941-966-5214
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Videos from the 1000 days of Running around the United States. Approximately 2-3 hours a day and 10 -20 miles. The Videos do not depict real time and are not in Full Length. Daryl Started Running from The Southernmost Point in the United States at the Concrete Buoy Landmark in Key West. Daryl will run approximately 13,000 total miles during this adventure. The adventure will include: jokes of the Day, interviews with the locals, activities and things to do at each location Daryl stops at per day.
Oral History Video: Linda Mansperger on the early settlers of Historic Spanish Point
Linda W. Mansperger is the Executive Director of Gulf Coast Heritage Association, Inc., the not-for-profit organization that owns and operates Historic Spanish Point. As the Executive Director of Gulf Coast Heritage Association since 1985, Linda manages the restoration and interpretation of Historic Spanish Point, one of Florida's premier historic sites. With 30 acres overlooking Little Sarasota Bay, the site preserves and interprets 5,000 years of southwest Florida history. Open daily, Historic Spanish Point welcomes 28,000 visitors annually including 4,000 school children participating in curriculum-based field trips. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums. To read the full-length transcript of the interview, conducted by New College of Florida student Casey Schelhorn, visit the Sarasota Water Atlas at
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Hidden Bay | Osprey FL Condos
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Close Access to Everything at Hidden Bay
Hidden Bay is situated in the Baypointe Vista subdivision in beautiful Osprey, Florida. Residents here have access to an array of amenities, including a community clubhouse where they are welcome to entertain and simply relax. There are also several exercise areas available within the community as well as tennis courts and swimming pools. Concerned that you won't be able to have a pet if you purchase a home in a condo community? That's not the case at Hidden Bay because pets are welcome here.
Many of the well appointed units here at Hidden Bay offer gorgeous Bay views. This waterfront property is ideal for buyers who are looking for an opportunity to be near the water and enjoy the fabulous local fishing and boating. In fact, there is a walkway that will take you right through the mangroves here to a fishing pier where you can cast a line or simply sit back and enjoy the breathtaking views.
The local area of Osprey is known for its laid-back and casual atmosphere, although it is considered to be an up and coming area within the local region. This thriving community offers abundant opportunities, including outdoor recreational activities. One of the most popular attractions in Osprey is Oscar Scherer State Park. Highlights of the park include miles and miles of hiking and biking paths, picnic sites, camping sites and an abundant variety of wildlife. There is also a beachfront lake that offers canoe rental services.
Hidden Bay is situated within a ten mile drive of Sarasota, meaning that residents will be able to easily take advantage of all the numerous activities and amenities offered in a larger city without having to deal with the hassles of actually living there. This charming condo community truly provides the best of both worlds.
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Giving Thanks to God
On Thursday, September 24, 1789, the First House of Representatives recommended the First Amendment to the states for ratification. Congressman Elias Boudinot proposed that Congress jointly request that President Washington proclaim a day of thanksgiving for the many signal favors of Almighty God. He could not think of letting the session pass over without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining, with one voice, in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the blessings he had poured down upon them. The colonists of another era were aware of the many instances of thanksgiving found in holy writ. Thanksgiving, as it was practiced by the colonists, was a religious celebration that shared the sentiments of their biblical forerunners, giving thanks to God for His faithful provision. Twice en route the passengers [aboard the Arabella] participated in a fast, and once a 'thanksgiving.'
One of the earliest recorded celebrations occurred a half century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. A small colony of French Huguenots established a settlement near present-day Jacksonville, Florida. On June 30, 1564, their leader, René de Laudonnière, recorded that We sang a psalm of Thanksgiving unto God, beseeching Him that it would please Him to continue His accustomed goodness towards us. May we do likewise this day as we gather together with our families and thank God for continuing to bless our nation.
Oscar Scherer State Park - Osprey FL
Oscar Scherer State Park
Oscar Scherer State Park is a Florida State Park located between Sarasota and Venice, near Osprey, a midst the heavily developed southwest Florida coast. The address is 1843 South Tamiami Trail. There are more than 130,000 visitors a year.
History
The park's genesis was in 1955, when Elsa Scherer Burrows, owner of the 462-acre (1.87 km2) South Creek Ranch, died. Her will left the ranch to the state to form a park. It was to be dedicated to the memory of her father, Oscar Scherer, the developer of a shoe leather dyeing process in 1872. A year later, the park was ready and opened to visitors.
Thirty years after that, Realtor and environmentalist Jon Thaxton started work to protect the neighboring Florida Scrub Jay territory. In 1992 this resulted in 922 acres (3.73 km2) being added from the adjacent Palmer Ranch that had been among the holdings of Bertha Honoré Palmer, in large part due to the Nature Conservancy, public support, and the use of Preservation 2000 funds, expanding the park's size to 1,384 acres (5.60 km2).
In September 2008, in recognition of National Public Lands Day, Lee Wetherington, a local developer and long-time park supporter, donated an additional 16.6 acres (0.067 km2) of land to the park, including the buffer property adjacent to the Willowbend subdivision (a Wetherington development), bringing the total park size to 1,400 acres (5.7 km2).
Biology
Flora
The habitats that are part of the park are pine flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods and the hardwood hammock surrounding South Creek. A variety of other plants exist within the park, like blueberry, persimmon, wild grape, cabbage palm, coontie, wax myrtle, prickly pear cacti, mangrove trees and giant leather ferns (Acrostichum danaeifolium).
Fauna
Land and aquatic inhabitants include bobcats, rabbits, foxes, North American River Otters, American Alligators, Eastern Indigo Snakes (Drymarchon couperi), Gopher Tortoises and Gopher Frogs.
The park is one of the few places in the state where there are enough scrubby flatwoods for the Florida Scrub Jay to maintain a healthy population. Other birds that can be seen in the park are Bald Eagles, Ospreys, warblers, woodpeckers, egrets, and the Great Blue and Little Blue Heron.
The 3-acre (12,000 m2) freshwater Lake Osprey has bream, bluegill, largemouth bass and channel catfish, among others. South Creek is brackish, so it can contain saltwater fish.
Recreational activities
The park has such amenities as beaches, bicycling, boating, canoeing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, picnicking, snorkeling, swimming and wildlife viewing. It also has an interpretive exhibit and visitor center. The Legacy Trail, which runs on a former railroad route, also runs through and connects with the park.
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The presence of people, possibly Paleo-Indian, along the west coast of Florida dates back to around 8,000 B.C. and there is evidence that native Americans lived along the waterfront of Sarasota and southwest Florida more than 3,000 years ago. In the 1500's, the first Spanish explorers, Ponce de Leon, Panfilo Narvaez, and Hernando De Soto landed on the Gulf Coast in search of gold and silver. In 1821, the United States acquired the territory of Florida and in 1824, the Armed Occupation Act allowed for private ownership of land along Sarasota Bay, but only for incoming settlers. The native Seminoles were not allowed to become citizens or own land and were pushed even further south. In 1855, the settlers won their war with the Seminoles but it wasn't until the 1880's that development really began.
In 1885, Sarasota Florida was promoted in Scotland. Many families sailed to America expecting fields of vegetables, housing, and citrus groves. They found only a stump-filled Main Street and most of the colonists left. John Hamilton Gillespie, a Scottish aristocrat, lawyer and member of the Royal Company of Archers, Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, built what is believed to be America's first golf course in Sarasota. Gillespie also built the DeSoto Hotel on Main Street for tourists and prospective investors. In 1902, he was elected as Sarasota's first mayor.
Scottish influence remains evident through the annual Sarasota Highland Games and Festival and the Riverview High Kiltie band, which wears authentic kilts and features bagpipers and Highland dancers. The Crowley Museum and Nature Center in eastern Sarasota vividly demonstrates what life was like for Sarasota's first settlers in the late 19th century.
Sarasota Florida began attracting wealthy Americans in the 1910's as it does today. Bertha Palmer, widow of Chicago developer Potter Palmer, came to Sarasota and built extensive gardens on her waterfront winter estate, Osprey Point, which is today's Historic Spanish Point. Palmer also purchased a 30,000-acre ranch in eastern Sarasota which is now Myakka River State Park.
John Ringling, of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fame, made a mark on the community of Sarasota in various ways. In the 1920s, he and his wife, Mable, built a magnificent Venetian-style estate on Sarasota Bay named Cà d' Zan. Then they built an art museum for their collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens and other 17th-century Italian and Flemish art. In addition, John used his circus elephants to help build the first bridge from the mainland to St. Armands Key, which he developed as a commercial and residential center.
The circus' winter quarters were moved to Sarasota Florida in 1927, thus creating a new identity for Sarasota Florida as a circus town. Now Sarasota is known as the Circus Capitol of the World and is home to many circuses. In 1949, the gymnastics program at Sarasota High School was expanded to include circus acts and the Sarasota Sailor Circus was born. Sarasota County is the only public school system in the United States that sponsors an after school youth circus program known as the Sailor Circus and is also home to Ringling's Clown College
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Uniquely Designed for Tranquility at Pine Run
Buyers who are looking for something slightly different and unique will fall in love with the condos at Pine Run in Osprey, Florida. This 147 unit condo community is situated on 20 acres of lush Florida landscaping. There are numerous benefits offered to residents here, including the fact that each condo unit opens up into its very own private part of the woods. If you desire privacy and seclusion and love the great outdoors, you will love living in Pine Run. One, two and three bedroom units are available here, ensuring you can find the unit that will ideally match your needs. Pine Run offers two swimming pools for the enjoyment of guests as well as four tennis courts and a clubhouse for entertaining and socializing.
History of the United States Marine Corps | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:13 1 Background
00:11:42 1.1 Colonial era
00:16:49 2 Continental era
00:45:42 3 Establishment of the modern Marine Corps
00:50:42 3.1 Henderson's era
00:55:17 4 Civil War
00:59:24 4.1 Confederate Marines
00:59:42 5 Latter 19th century
01:02:50 5.1 Spanish– & Philippine–American Wars
01:04:52 6 Early 1900s
01:08:18 6.1 Banana Wars
01:14:35 7 World War I
01:18:19 7.1 A new amphibious mission
01:23:54 8 World War II
01:27:32 8.1 Interim: WWII-Korea
01:33:24 9 Korean War
01:35:07 9.1 Interim: Korea-Vietnam
01:36:31 10 Vietnam War
01:37:30 10.1 Interim: post-Vietnam War
01:41:24 11 The 1990s
01:41:33 11.1 Gulf War
01:42:11 11.2 Bosnian War
01:43:26 11.3 Other
01:45:34 12 Twenty-first century
01:46:42 12.1 War in Afghanistan
01:47:51 12.2 Iraq War
01:49:26 13 See also
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The history of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) begins with the founding of the Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 to conduct ship-to-ship fighting, provide shipboard security and discipline enforcement, and assist in landing forces. Its mission evolved with changing military doctrine and foreign policy of the United States. Owing to the availability of Marine forces at sea, the United States Marine Corps has served in nearly every conflict in United States history. It attained prominence when its theories and practice of amphibious warfare proved prescient, and ultimately formed a cornerstone of the Pacific Theater of World War II. By the early 20th century, the Marine Corps would become one of the dominant theorists and practitioners of amphibious warfare. Its ability to rapidly respond on short notice to expeditionary crises has made and continues to make it an important tool for U.S. foreign policy.In February 1776, the Continental Marines embarked on their maiden expedition. The Continental Marines were disbanded at the end of the war, along with the Continental Navy. In preparation for the Quasi-War with France, Congress created the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred in the First Barbary War (1801–1805) against the Barbary pirates. In the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), the Marines made their famed assault on Chapultepec Palace, which overlooked Mexico City, their first major expeditionary venture. In the 1850s, the Marines would see service in Panama, and in Asia. During the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865) the Marine Corps played only a minor role after their participation in the Union defeat at the first battle of First Bull Run/Manassas. Their most important task was blockade duty and other ship-board battles, but they were mobilized for a handful of operations as the war progressed. The remainder of the 19th century would be a period of declining strength and introspection about the mission of the Marine Corps. Under Commandant Jacob Zeilin's term (1864–1876), many Marine customs and traditions took shape. During the Spanish–American War (1898), Marines would lead U.S. forces ashore in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, demonstrating their readiness for deployment. Between 1900 and 1916, the Marine Corps continued its record of participation in foreign expeditions, especially in the Caribbean and Central and South America, which included Panama, Cuba, Veracruz, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua.
In World War I, battle-tested, veteran Marines served a central role in the United States' entry into the conflict. Between the world wars, the Marine Corps was headed by Major General John A. Lejeune, another popular commandant. In World War II, the Marines played a central role, under Admiral Nimitz, in the Pacific War, participating in nearly every significant battle. The Corps also ...
Florida State Historic Capitol
We went to the capitol after the cheer comp. Sad to say there is nothing about the second amendment in the building, other rights are covered though. I am a firm believer that the second protects the rest! For the time being I have not open carried in the capitol here....yet. But the time will come when we can legally and we also can carry black powder currently.
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FORT MATANZAS FIELD TRIP
We took a field trip to Fort Matanzas in Crescent Beach, FL to satisfy a Cub Scout requirement for Kelly. Fort Matanzas is just south of St. Augustine, Florida on the intracoastal waterway, near the Matanzas Inlet.
Fort Matanzas is part of the National Park Service (so be sure to bring those National Park Passports, if you have them) and is known for it's role as a protective fort for St. Augustine as European nations fought for control of the New World.
One of the most famous battles at this fort occurred between the Spanish and the French Huguenots. The Spanish, under command of Menendez slaughtered over 250 of the French Huguenots in 1565. This is where the Fort and the inlet get the name Matanzas, meaning slaughters in Spanish. The Fort wasn't built until 175 years later to help protect the Spanish city of St. Augustine from a rear attack by the British. Later, in 1821, the United States took possession of Florida and Fort Matanzas, but the Fort had deteriorated to a point in which soldiers could no longer occupy the fort and the US never did.
The Fort measures 50 feet by 50 feet with a 30 feet high tower. The Fort is built from coquina and lime made from burning oyster shells. The Fort is built on what is essentially a marsh swamp and is stabilized by over 300 pine pilings driven down into the marsh. One cabo (officer-in-charge), four infantryman and two gunners typically manned the Fort, but 50 soldiers could be assigned to this Fort during times of tension.
Today, the park features a short hiking trail (boardwalk) that loops through the Florida coastal flora and fauna. On the day we visited, we saw cedars, palms, a gopher tortoise, and lots of birds. To see the Fort, you take a quick ferry ride across the Matanzas River. You'll get a very interesting history lesson about the Fort and surrounding St. Augustine from a park ranger before being released to explore the Fort.
The diminutive size of this fort is stunning and I can't help but feel for the soldiers that must have been cramped inside this fort. A great history lesson for the kids and myself.
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Siege of Pensacola | Wikipedia audio article
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Siege of Pensacola
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The Siege of Pensacola was a siege fought in 1781, the culmination of Spain's conquest of the British province of West Florida during the Gulf Coast campaign.
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