TAMPA, Fla. — A map considered to be the very first map of the Florida peninsula is going on display at the Tampa Bay History Center. “The Shape We’re In: Early Maps of Florida” exhibit ...

"Some of the earliest Spanish-sponsored explorations of what we think of as a new world North America really started here in the Tampa Bay area," said Rodney Kite-Powell, Historian at the Tampa ...

James MacDougald believes he has rewritten Florida history and added further intrigue to the early ... Tampa Bay is known to be located today, the maps say, "Bahía de Juan Ponce,' Spanish for ...

FOX 13’s Lloyd Sowers reports on a new exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center highlighting the long history of Spanish immigrants ... a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might ...

Smithsonian Archives; Alamy In the area around Tampa Bay ... into the lives of early Floridians. (If viewing this article in Apple News, click here to view the interactive map.) ...