OLD SPANISH ffiii.IL PLACE-NAMES Their Origin and Meaning
By Harral Ayrea Managing Director Old Spanish Trail
Assisted by the Universities of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, and other friends of the Old Spanish Trail works
Most rivers and numerous geographical divisions in the Southwest carry Spanish names or corruptions of the Spanish* Old streets and local names are Spanish at St* Augustine, Pensacola, San Antonio, El Paso,Las Cruces, Tucson, San Diego and other old communities* French prevails in street, city, town and county names from Mobile, Ala. to Lafayette, La.
FLORIDA
FLORIDA:	Ponce	de	Leon landed Easter Day, the feast of Pasque Florida.
(Pas-gay Flo-rl-da)
ST. AUGUSTINE:	Original	Spanish,	San	Agustin.
ST. JOHNS (river):	Original Spanish, San Juan. (San Hwan)
SUWANNEE (river): Indian.
AUCXLIA (river):	Thought	to	be	corruption	of	Indian	and Spanish.
TALLAHASSEE:	Suggested	a	corruption	of	Greek	Indian	for old town..,
. '■ ■ ■ . ... . ■ - -APAL&CHICOLA (river):	Suggested	this	is	Choctaw	Indian	for allies or
friendly people. The Apalacb.es are referred to in the Da Soto Narratives as a strong Indian tribe of this section.
CHIPQM (river):	Choctaw	ohepulli	suggested;	place	for feast or great
dance, t£d ■"	.
CHOCTAWHATCHE53 (river):	Hacha,	Indian	for	river---Choctaw River.
OKALOOSA (county):	Indian	for	blackwater.	,(.
SANTA ROSA (county):	Holy	or	Saint	Rose.	Santa	is	feminine form. (Sp.)
hv.-;-.-
ESCAMBIA (county): ' Bay for scaling fish. Bscamar, to scale fish; tUJtia, bay. (Sp.)
PENSACOLA:	Suggested	Choctaw	for	Hair	people.	Alao-
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