why was florida established
Florida was under colonial rule by Spain and Great Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries before becoming a territory of the United States in 1822. Two decades later, in 1845, Florida was admitted to the union as the 27th US state.ritten history begins with the arrival of Europeans to Florida; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon leÃ³n in 1513 made the first textual. records