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Overview
Florida has a long and complex and very interesting history, but few of us have time to read it in depth. So here are 200 quick looks at Florida's 10,000 years of history, from the arrival of the first natives to the present. The distilled version is packed with unusual and little-known facts and stories.The inventor of air-conditioning died broke and forgotten
The first tourist attraction in Florida featured ostrich racing
The first counterfeiting case in the New World was in Florida
A president used an elephant as his caddy at a Florida golf course
A Florida senator fell in love and disappeared
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Florida
The University of Florida is in Gainesville because of scandal
A man bought four million acres in Florida for 25 cents an acre
Florida farmers made a fortune investing in Coca-Cola
To raise money in the 1830s, Florida printed $3 bills
James C. Clark is editor Orlando magazine and teaches at the University of Central Florida. He and his two sons live in Orlando.