Ponce's fleet had been beset by tropical storms as it lay anchored at Guatao for some 19 days. Wind- bound, the fleet was trapped there until such time as the weather moderated and permitted a safe ...

In the mid-morning of Thursday, March 3, Don Juan was rowed out to his ship in the port of San Germán. The ships of his small fleet, the Santiago, the San Cristóbal and the Santa Maria de la ...

Juan Ponce de León served as governor of Puerto Rico for a tumultuous five years. During that time, the native Taínos tried unsuccessfully to overpower him, but, in the end, it was the son of ...

March 2, 1514 — After waiting more than five months and despairing of ever seeing Antón de Alaminos and the San Cristóbal again the day finally came. On Feb. 20, 1514 the San Cristóbal arrived safely ...

The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve unveiled the Ponce Educational Exhibit as the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leons landing in Florida was celebrated in 2013. MIAMI ...

Juan Ponce de León served as governor of Puerto Rico for a tumultuous five years. During that time, the native Taínos tried unsuccessfully to overpower him, but, in the end, it was the son of ...

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. But evidence ...

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 island.