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Florida was probably discovered and mapped by Europeans before Ponce de Leon
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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Harrisse has shown that the peninsula of Florida was almost certainly discovered and mapped with an approximation to accuracy late in the fifteenth or early in the 16th century, a dozen years at least before the supposed discovery by Ponce de Leon in 1512 or 1513.2 Still, if Florida does not owe her entry into European history to the last-mentioned navigator, she unquestionably does her name, which afterwards displaced all previous appellations. (Swanton)
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