Palm Coast in Flagler County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)

Hernandez Landing

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1. Hernandez Landing Marker

Inscription. This estuary was once part of an 800-acre Spanish Land Grant received by Joseph Mariano Hernandez in 1816. Between here and Old King's Road stood St. Joseph's Plantation, which mainly grew sugarcane. It was one of three plantations owned by Hernandez and operated through the forced labor of over 75 enslaved people. Hernandez Landing was vital to local planters as the area's first commercial shipping site. Flat bottom boats transported goods through the shallows of Long Creek to the Matanzas River and waiting ships, which sailed to markets in St. Augustine and Savannah. An early 1800s map shows a landing for boats and a cart road that ended at Long Greek. Archaeologists found remnants of a wooden wharf and bulkhead here in 2008. Goods transferred over this wharf included rice, sugar, indigo, and sea-island cotton. St. Joseph's Plantation was burned during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Hernandez became a US citizen in 1821. The next year, he was appointed to Florida's legislative council and selected as Florida's first delegate to the United States Congress, its first Hispanic member. He also served as Brigadier General

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of the East Florida Militia and was Mayor of St. Augustine. He died in Cuba in June 1856.

Erected 2024 by A Florida Heritage Site; The City of Palm Coast, The Palm Coast Historical Society and Museum, and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-1243.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Agriculture • Colonial Era • Hispanic Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian. A significant historical year for this entry is 1816.

Location. 29° 35.017′ N, 81° 12.707′ W. Marker is in Palm Coast, Florida, in Flagler County. It can be reached from Palm Harbor Parkway 0.1 miles west of Coral Way, on the right when traveling west. The marker is located just inside the entrance to the Long Creek Nature Preserve. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1050 Palm Harbor Parkway, Palm Coast FL 32137, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Florida’s First Coast.

It is also in the American South

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western

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2. Hernandez Landing Marker

Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Levitt & I.T.T. 'De Bary' Model (approx. 1.2 miles away); Turtle #10 - "Nancy Marie" (approx. 1.2 miles away); Palm Coast, Florida (approx. 1.3 miles away); Levitt & I.T.T. "Del Mar" Model and Palm Coast Golf Club (approx. 1.3 miles away); The First Responders (approx. 1.4 miles away); September 11, 2001 (approx. 1½ miles away); World Trade Center (approx. 1½ miles away); Flight 93 (approx. 1½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Palm Coast.

Long Creek Nature Reserve Informational Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brandon D Cross

3. Long Creek Nature Reserve Informational Marker

General Joseph Hernandez image. Click for full size.

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4. General Joseph Hernandez

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5. Hernandez Landing Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on October 24, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 24, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 586 times since then and 52 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on October 24, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.