Here They Once Stood
The Tragic End of
the Apalachee Missions
by Mark
F. Boyd, Hale G. Smith, and John W. Griffin
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In the early 17th
century, 150 years before Spanish missions were
established in California, a chain of missions reached
westward from St. Augustine across northern Florida.
Today nothing exists of those Florida Franciscan
outposts. Our knowledge of them comes only from archival
research and information gleaned from archaeological
excavations.
Florida's missions came to a fiery end in the first few
years of the 18th century, victims of devastating raids
by Carolinian militia and their Indian allies. The
Apalachee and other mission Indians were slain, some by
being burned at the stake or flayed alive. Others were
taken back to Charleston as slaves and still others fled.
Here They Once Stood, first published in 1951
and a classic example of collaborative research, presents
the first-hand accounts describing the horrific fate of
the missions. It also offers archaeological reports
further documenting the missions and the lives of the
native peoples who lived and died as Christians under
Spanish rule.
Southeastern Classics in
Archaeology, Anthropology, and History
Mark F. Boyd, a well-known malariologist, was historian
for the Florida Park Service and, from 1946 to 1949,
president of the Florida Historical Society.
Hale G. Smith, also an employee of the Florida Park Service, was
chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Florida
State University.
John W. Griffin, the author of
pathbreaking writing on the early years of historical
archaeology in the Southeast, was the first professional
archaeologist employed in the state of Florida, in 1946.
In 1993 he received a posthumous Award of Merit from the
Society for Historical Archaeology.
1999. 240pp. 6 X 9.
ISBN 0-8130-1725-4 Paper, $29.95s
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"Initially published in 1951 this outstanding book has stood well the test of time, and scholars now regard it as a classic." --
Georgia Historical Quarterly
"The book
throws much new light on the final, critical years of the
‘Mission Era’ of northern Florida. . . . [It]
fills in a most interesting and important aspect of this
story; namely, the difficult life led by the Franciscans,
who established their simple, crude outposts among a most
inhospitable people. The whole picture of the
missionary’s life—his simple mission buildings
and the paucity and crudeness of his material
blessings—is brought out by these studies. How
different a picture than the one so many of us have of
the Spanish missionary following in the wake of
conquering armies. . . . An important contribution to the
history of the Spanish period in America!"—American
Antiquity
"An historical-archaeological case study of two
Spanish missions and of the area now comprising Leon and
Jefferson counties. The authors reaffirm the fact that
missions in the region were destroyed in the early 1700s
and that they were not largely revived thereafter; and
they properly conclude, it seems, that their documents
and excavations furnish information on the missions
during their heyday."—Florida
Historical Quarterly
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