On This Day in Weird, March 27...
1513: Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Léon
"discovers" Florida and starts another round of "New World"
genocide while seeking the mythical Fountain of Youth. Natives fatally wound
him eight years later, during a second campaign of enslavement and
exploitation, but not before he founds future America's oldest recognized city
at San Augustine, site of two religious massacres in 1565 and of white-on-black
race riots 100 years later.
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