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A short (~5 minute) video introducing the 450+-year history of the most beautiful bayou, Bayou Chico, in Pensacola, Florida.
View a documentary video produced by Michael O’Donovan concerning the Spanish Expeditions of Hernando de Soto and Tristan de Luna into the interior of S.W. Alabama and N.W. Florida during the 1500s.
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This 1984 PBS documentary, produced by the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio, explores the possible 1540 route of DeSoto through Alabama. Archaeologist Caleb Curren travels proposed sites, interviewing archaeologists David DeJarnette, Keith Little, Mack Brooms, Read Stowe, and others.
There are two important historic archeological mysteries associated with the lower Alabama River. The first is the location of one of the largest battles ever fought between Europeans and Natives in North America at the Native town of Mabila (1540). The second is the first European settlement in the interior of North America named the Settlement of the Sacred Cross (1559). This book provides the reader with the latest archeological field research concerning the search for the two sites.
One of the mysteries of the 1559 Luna Expedition has always been: “where was the actual settlement site?” No Luna period Spanish map has ever been found that pinpoints the settlement site, and documents from…
Soldiers Shot by Native Arrows, on the Don Tristán de Luna 1559 Expedition to la Florida Part 1 of 4 by David B. Dodson September, 2025 Wounded Soldiers, Supplication for Mercedes (Rewards), and The…
For decades the late John T. Powell acted as a liaison between professional archeologists and metal detecting groups.
By David B. Dodson July, 2025 Over the many decades I have been investigating the history of Pensacola, Florida and other areas of the northern the Gulf Coast, I have had the opportunity to discuss…
