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Florida:

Budd Schulberg once quipped about Florida, "...It's a melting pot, a frontier, a place to improve your health or your luck."

First sighted and explored by Juan Ponce de León in 1513, this 450 miles long peninsula extends into the warm, clear waters that surround the southeastern U.S.

Florida is home to St. Augustine, settled in 1565, and it remains America's oldest European settlement still in operation.

Because of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Florida came under British rule. Then Spain took back the land they once controlled, only to give it to the U.S. in 1821.

This tourism magnet is known worldwide as the land of sunshine, perfect beaches, orange groves, Disney World, Universal Studios, NASA and the Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center.

In addition, Florida is the most popular retirement destination on the planet and contains the electric city of Miami, Key West and the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and so much more.

If you search for Ponce de Leon's legendary Fountain of Youth, Florida should be your destination.

Adopted in 1900, the flag recalls the Southern Cross used by the Confederacy during the Civil War.

That red cross is placed on a white shield, with the state seal centered. The flag represents the land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers and lakes.

The seal features a brilliant sun, a cabbage palmetto tree, a steamboat sailing and a Native American Seminole woman scattering flowers.

Official name: Florida
Capital: Tallahassee
Statehood: March 3, 1845 the 27th state
State nickname: The Sunshine State
Name for residents: Floridians
State motto: In God We Trust
Abbreviation: FL

Florida's Historical Event's:

1513 The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León lands on the coast of Florida.
1539 Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay.
1565 Spanish colonists establish Saint Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States.
1763 Spain cedes Florida to Great Britain. The British divide it into two colonies, East Florida and West Florida.
1784 Great Britain returns Florida to Spain after the American Revolution.
1817 Andrew Jackson invades Florida, beginning the first Seminole War.
1819 Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States under the terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty.
1821 Florida formally comes under U.S. jurisdiction following the treaty verification.
1822 Florida is organized as a U.S. territory.
1823 Tallahassee is chosen as the territorial capital.
1842 The second Seminole War ends.
1845 Florida enters the Union as the 27th state (March 3).
1858 The third Seminole War ends.
1861 Florida secedes from the Union (January 10) and joins the Confederacy.
1868 Florida is re admitted to the Union (June 25).
1880s The development of the tourist industry begins.
1926 Florida's real estate boom of the early 1920s collapses.
1949 A missile test center is established at Cape Canaveral.
Late 1950s Florida's Hispanic population is swelled by immigrants from Cuba after a revolution there.
1961 The first manned U.S. space capsule is launched from Cape Canaveral (May 5).
1968 The state's sixth constitution is adopted.
1992 Hurricane Andrew devastates southeastern Florida.

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