Economic Problems of Florida Governors, 1700-1763
By John J. Tepaske

Part 1 of 4

Many problems plagued the eighteenth-century Florida governor, but none vexed him more than the economic plight of his settlement. Florida was a poverty-stricken military outpost of the Spanish Empire on the northeastern fringe of New Spain.

Liberty Pines Academy students honor veterans

Michael Isam
Special to Historic City News

All through the presentation at Liberty Pines Academy, battle-hardened veterans quietly wiped tears from their eyes and searched pockets frantically for tissues or handkerchiefs as they were overcome with emotion over the ceremony honoring American veterans.

Historic City News reader, Sheila Bacon Greenleaf, shared the news that Friends of South Dixie Highway have won approval from the City of St Augustine for the text of a marker to be erected beside the 100-year-old Albert Lewis Trough; located at 92 South Dixie Highway — the former site of the San Juan Trailer Park.

St Augustine 450th Commemoration Youth Ambassadors contact, Jeani Taliaferro, updated local Historic City News reporters on the organization’s May activities with a report prepared by Youth Ambassador and Nease High School IB Class of 2015 member, John Hutton.

For the third time, Flagler College won the US Enactus National Championship, and will represent the nation at the Enactus World Cup in Cancun, Mexico, on September 29, according to Brian Thompson in a report to Historic City News this morning. Flagler Enactus also won the national title in 2004 and 2009.

In a split vote, whose final tally was 757 yes to 475 no, the Boy Scouts of America will begin allowing openly gay teens to participate in their program beginning January 1, 2014; according to information received by Historic City News from the North Florida Council in Jacksonville.

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., Historic City News readers are invited to listen, and join in, when the conversation on Travel Itch Radio turns to St Augustine and the new interactive Colonial Quarter museum.