August 4, 1513 The fleet had departed the island of La Vieja on July 25 to continue the search for the elusive island of Bimini, sailing amongst very low lying Lucayan islands (today's Bahamas Isl… ...

Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now the Bahamas.

Ponce de León’s first contract, granted in February 1512, had authorized him to discover and populate Bimini. For his second voyage, he equipped his fleet and sailed for Florida from Puerto ...

Ponce de Leon may have named the place then known as Bimini — which he thought was an island — after the Easter time "Feast of Flowers," but he was not the first European to land in La Florida.

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.

On this day in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 came ashore on the Florida coast near present-day St. Augustine and claimed the territory for the Spanish crown.

While there's no record of Ponce De Leon visiting Bimini, locals believe the freshwater well provides healing and ...

MIAMI — 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.

Ponce de Leon may have named the place then known as Bimini — which he thought was an island ... who had the charter for Cuba and the Bahamas, was angry that the Beimeni/Bimini charter had not ...

MIAMI (AP) — 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 ...