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Ponce de Leon to commemorate the year 1513 of his discovery...She also identified the site of a mission chapel built by Ponce de Leon and some of the coquina building blocks still remaining to mark the site. It is pertinent to recall that wherever Ponce made his first landing he remained at the place only five days. This story told by Mrs. McConnell of the Ponce de Leon coquina cross and its discovery by her was the origin of the myth that Ponce de Leon landed at
Hospital Creek. Her ingenious invention found immediate acceptance and endorsement in a quarter one might least suspect.
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wonder at the number of the years, he led them to a fountain, wherein when they had washed, they found their flesh all glossy and sleek, as if they had bathed in oil- and a scent came from the spring like that of violets. The water was so weak, they said, that nothing would float in it, neither wood, nor any lighter substance, but all went to the bottom. If the account of this fountain be true, it would be their constant use of the water from it which makes them so long-lived.
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paid regular visits to the fountain. A frail old man could become so completely restored that he could resume "all manly exercises … take a new wife and beget more children." Herrera adds that the
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then in their turn questioned the king concerning the term of life, and diet of his people, and were told that most of them lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, while some even went beyond that age—they ate boiled flesh, and had for their drink nothing but milk. When the
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Williams by Philip Gomez and Philip Capo. McConnell later claimed to have "discovered" on the grounds a large cross made of
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Georgia who managed McConnell's attraction, then bought the property and made it one of the state's most successful tourist attractions. The first archaeological digs at the Fountain of Youth were performed in 1934 by the
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of 1535, in which he wrote that Ponce de León was looking for the waters of Bimini to regain youthfulness. Some researchers have suggested that Oviedo's account may have been politically inspired to generate favor in the courts. A similar account appears in
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rock, asserting it was placed there by Ponce de León himself. She continued to fabricate stories to amuse and appall the city's residents and tourists until her death in a car accident in 1927.
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of the 1890s, she purchased the Park property in 1904 from Henry H. Williams, a
British horticulturalist, with cash and diamonds, for which she became known in St. Augustine as "Diamond Lil".
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waters. These waters might have been a river, a spring or any other water-source said to reverse the aging process and to cure sickness when swallowed or bathed in.
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