Links of Interest:

• 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America (Florida)

• 1500s - Spanish Conquistadores explore Florida and Baja California

• 1600s - Spanish Missionaries arrived

bringing disease which wiped out Native Americans in Florida

• 1609-1639 Height of French Fur Trading

for beaver pelts for hats in Europe. Frenchmen traded with Huron Indians in Canada until Small Pox decimated half the Huron Tribe so they moved further West.
BBC Atlas of the Natural World North America Land of the Eagle "Searching for Paradise" Documentary 2006.