{"id":195336,"date":"2026-03-17T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195336\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:51:06","slug":"welcome-to-florida-turnbull-plantation-and-menorcans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195336\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Florida: Turnbull Plantation and Menorcans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Turnbull Plantation and Menorcans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tColonial history in what is now Florida typically revolves around the Spanish, but for a period between the 1760s and 1780s, the English occupied the state. Andrew Turnbull tried establishing a British-style plantation in the New Smyrna Beach area with disastrous results. Greg Holbrook, Executive Director at the New Smyrna Museum of History, tells us all about it.                <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113693\" class=\"wp-image-113693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Turnbull-Plantation-FL-Historical-Society-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-113693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Florida Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turnbull Plantation and Menorcans Colonial history in what is now Florida typically revolves around the Spanish, but for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-195336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}