Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León is said to have come looking for a spring that restored youth when he landed on this coast in 1513 and named the place Florida. He never found it, and probably never really sought it, the legend grew after his death, but it fixed itself forever to Florida’s endless springs. An archaeological park in St. Augustine marks the traditional landing, over real 16th-century Spanish and Timucua ground.
St. Augustine (St. Johns County, FL). Source: A 500-year-old legend rooted in a real landing and real springs. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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