Is this 16th century map evidence that Ponce de Leon was not the first European to discover Florida? The map's owner, Brian Schmitt, an avid map collector and resident of Marathon, says it is.

On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first arrived in what is now Florida - the start of a quest for a miraculous spring whose waters could reverse aging. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

On April 2, 1513, Ponce de Leon touched the Florida coast for the first time, thinking the new land was yet another island of the Caribbean.

Of all the outlandish myths about Florida’s outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth.

Ponce de Leon is a town in Holmes County, Florida, with a population of 497. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single ...

On this day in 1514, the Spanish crown granted the explorer Juan Ponce de León a contract to settle the islands of Bimini and Florida — Ponce de León at the time believed Florida was also an ...

The Charlotte Harbor area has been fingered as the location because it is where Ponce de León landed during his first expedition to Florida in 1513.

While Ponce de Leon’s time in Florida was short, his impact was significant. In 1521, on his second attempt to sail through the modern-day Caloosahatchee River to establish a colony, the Calusa denied ...

Ponce de Leon never found it, but he might have been looking in the right place. Five hundred years after the great Spanish explorer headed to Florida — ...

Of all the outlandish myths about Florida's outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth.

MIAMI — Of all the outlandish myths about Florida's outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth ...

Of all the outlandish myths about Florida’s outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth.