America’s Oldest Colony: The Story of St. Augustine

America’s Oldest Colony: The Story of St. Augustine
Author: Allen Richter
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2008-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1435802284

Readers will be enthralled by the story of the oldest settlement on the North American continent. The story will transport readers back to 42 years before the English colonized Jamestown and 55 years before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.

Establishing the American Colonies

Establishing the American Colonies
Author: Tyler Omoth
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635174406

Explores the establishment of the American colonies. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida
Author: Gonzalo Solís de Merás
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813065925

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America’s oldest city. Until recently, the only extant version of Solís de Merás’s record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidíaz’s text. In 2012, David Arbesú discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document. In the resulting volume, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesú sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine’s founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesú provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.

Jamestown: The First English Colony

Jamestown: The First English Colony
Author: Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612280099

In 1606, one hundred and five men left England for the western shores of the Chesapeake Bay. They were looking for adventure, land, and treasure. Instead of gold and silver, the men found a dark and mysterious wilderness. A few, like John Smith, found friendship with the local natives. Others found new lives, hacked out of the Virginia wilderness. Most, however, found disease, starvation, and eventually death. Two-thirds of the original Jamestown settlers died within the first year. Still, the English kept coming. Land and opportunity were worth the risks. By 1621, Jamestown had grown to 1,200 settlers, and people from the first successful English colony began to branch out and settle other towns. The Building America series tells the story of the early years in which America struggled to become an independent nation. Jamestown: The First English Colony details the extraordinary circumstances and often harrowing experiences overcome by the persistent Englishmen who wanted to settle in Virginia.

Fort Mose

Fort Mose
Author: Glennette Tilley Turner
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Discover the story of Fort Mose in the only book for children about the first free Black community in America In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in the colony of South Carolina and, with a small group of men, headed south to Florida, at the time a Spanish colony, to the town of St. Augustine. There he was granted his freedom. He soon became a member of the Black militia and helped defend the area from English invaders. In 1738, Menendez helped found the first legally sanctioned free Black community in America. It was called Fort Mose, and it lay just north of St. Augustine. There were thirty-eight households of men, women, and children living together at Fort Mose, creating a frontier community that drew on a range of African backgrounds and blended them with the local Spanish, Native American, and English peoples and cultures. Fort Mose became a southern destination for travelers of the Underground Railroad many years before the birth of its legendary “conductor,” Harriet Tubman.

Children in Colonial America

Children in Colonial America
Author: Lydia Bjornlund
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1641851783

Illustrates the experience of children who lived in Colonial America. Captivating text, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

In Colonial America

In Colonial America
Author: Patrice Sherman
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612280226

If you grew up in colonial America, making your bed would mean more than just tucking in the sheets and pulling up the spread. You'd have to gather hay to stuff a straw-tick mattress and pluck a goose for a cozy down quilt. Colonial kids whittled pegs, spun thread, churned butter, and even cooked up their own soap in big iron kettles. Between chores, they learned the alphabet from hornbooks they wore around their necks. Yet no matter how hard they worked, they still had time for a game of blindman's bluff or king of the hill. How did they do all this? Maybe they took a tip from the mysterious Poor Richard, who said, "Have you something to do tomorrow? Do it today." Meet Hopewell of Bayberry Cove and many other children of the American colonies. (And find out who Poor Richard really was!)

Explore Colonial America!

Explore Colonial America!
Author: Verna Fisher
Publisher: Nomad Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1934670766

In Explore Colonial America!, kids ages 6-9 learn about America’s earliest days as European settlements, and how the colonists managed to survive, build thriving colonies, and eventually challenge England for independence. How did the colonists build homes, feed and clothe themselves, and get along with the Native Americans who were already here? This accessible introduction to the colonial period teaches young children about the daily lives of ordinary colonists and offers fascinating stories about those who helped shape the emerging nation. Activities range from creating a ship out of a bar of soap and building a log home out of graham crackers and pretzels to making a wampum necklace. Projects are easy-to-follow, require minimal adult supervision, and use primarily common household products and recycled supplies. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Colonial America!, and have a great time discovering our nation’s founding years.

The Maryland Colony: Lord Baltimore

The Maryland Colony: Lord Baltimore
Author: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612280110

English nobleman George Calvert wanted to establish a colony in the New World—not one like his first colony, Newfoundland, which he found to be too cold. Instead he wanted land in the temperate Chesapeake Bay area, where his colonists could grow tobacco. King Charles I granted his wish. Named for Henrietta Mary, Charles’s wife, the new colony of Maryland was established in 1634. Also known as Lord Baltimore, Calvert was a Catholic at a time when Protestants controlled the English government. He wanted Maryland to be a place where Catholics—and anyone else—could worship in freedom. As the British crown was passed through its heirs, favoring Protestants, then Catholics, then Protestants again, Maryland felt the ripples of unrest on its side of the Atlantic. Follow the story of how Maryland came to be a colony and how it fought for its borders with Virginia and Pennsylvania. Find out how in the end, it pulled together with those and the other colonies first to repel the encroaching French, and then to shrug off the tyranny of England.

Lost Colony

Lost Colony
Author: Robert Wilson Torchia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Artist colonies
ISBN: 9780971356009

St. Augustine, Florida's vibrant artistic history is the subject of " Lost Colony - The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950". The book chronicles how from the early 1930's through the 1950's historic St. Augustine, Florida's thriving art colony attracted hundreds of American artists. This group developed into the largest art colony in the South through the efforts of a small group of dedicated professional and amateur resident artists who founded the St. Augustine Arts Club in 1931.