Add to ORKGAttempts at land speculation have been common in the United States. In Florida an early attempt involved an immense tract of land known as the “Forbes Purchase.” This territory, situated in the north-central part of the state bordering the Gulf of Mexico, was the object of exploitation as a unit for approximately fifty-seven years, 1804-1861. First under the trading firm of Panton, Leslie and Company and its successor John Forbes and Company, and later under the Apalachicola Land Company, this practically virgin wilderness was explored, surveyed, and to a degree developed
In 1860, the eve of the Civil War, the southern edge of settlement, which delimited the “settled” ar...
The First Fort of San Marcos de Apalache Lucy L. Wenhold Osceola’s Coats? William C. Sturtevant Surv...
In his 1954 article Alfred P. Tischendorf discussed briefly the role of fifteen British-owned compan...
Abstract: Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memorand...
ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION OF THE FORBES PURCHASE John C. UpchurchSPANISH TREATIES W...
In view of the recent financial confusion in the United States, similar difficulties of the Florida ...
On his 10,000-acre plantation along the St. Johns River, Francis Philip Fatio had much to claim. Wit...
The Puritan soul of John Quincy Adams had been much mortified by the tissue of intrigue and double d...
PANTON, LESLIE & COMPANY AND JOHN FORBES & COMPANY, 1783-1847, by William S. Coker and Thomas D. Wat...
Americans\u27 dreams of empire appeared to become reality when the United States gained control over...
On July 16, 1844, Robert Christie, a London businessman, wrote to his distant relative, Floridian Ja...
The territory embraced within the state of Florida was not acquired by the United States through dir...
The drainage of the Florida Everglades haw been a highly debated issue since the mid-nineteenth cent...
Governments often used the promise of land as a means to implement policy. Whether the land was in ...
When Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a decision on the Forbes Purchase claims Apalachicola e...
In 1860, the eve of the Civil War, the southern edge of settlement, which delimited the “settled” ar...
The First Fort of San Marcos de Apalache Lucy L. Wenhold Osceola’s Coats? William C. Sturtevant Surv...
In his 1954 article Alfred P. Tischendorf discussed briefly the role of fifteen British-owned compan...
Abstract: Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memorand...
ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION OF THE FORBES PURCHASE John C. UpchurchSPANISH TREATIES W...
In view of the recent financial confusion in the United States, similar difficulties of the Florida ...
On his 10,000-acre plantation along the St. Johns River, Francis Philip Fatio had much to claim. Wit...
The Puritan soul of John Quincy Adams had been much mortified by the tissue of intrigue and double d...
PANTON, LESLIE & COMPANY AND JOHN FORBES & COMPANY, 1783-1847, by William S. Coker and Thomas D. Wat...
Americans\u27 dreams of empire appeared to become reality when the United States gained control over...
On July 16, 1844, Robert Christie, a London businessman, wrote to his distant relative, Floridian Ja...
The territory embraced within the state of Florida was not acquired by the United States through dir...
The drainage of the Florida Everglades haw been a highly debated issue since the mid-nineteenth cent...
Governments often used the promise of land as a means to implement policy. Whether the land was in ...
When Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a decision on the Forbes Purchase claims Apalachicola e...
In 1860, the eve of the Civil War, the southern edge of settlement, which delimited the “settled” ar...
The First Fort of San Marcos de Apalache Lucy L. Wenhold Osceola’s Coats? William C. Sturtevant Surv...
In his 1954 article Alfred P. Tischendorf discussed briefly the role of fifteen British-owned compan...