
Narvaez Landing
St. Petersburg, Florida — On Holy Thursday, April 14th, 1528, four carracks and a brigandine carrying Florida’s second Spanish governor, conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez, sighted the entrance to a shallow bay on Pinellas County’s gulf coast. With him were four-hundred men and forty-two horses, including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, and a North African man…
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