[FHStoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 27

[Nick Wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY 
NOVEMBER 27   
1854 James T. Archer assumed the office of Comptroller of Florida today, a
position he held until replaced by Theodore W. Brevard on January 24, 1855.

1861 Confederate ordinance inspectors visited the fortifications at Amelia
Island and reported that the island had sufficient armaments to repel any
Union
invasion.

1863 The Union vessel, U.S.S. Two Sisters, captured the British blockade
runner,
Maria Alberta, as she attempted to run the blockade at Bayport. 

1864 Union blockade ships were busy today.  The U.S.S. Princess Royal reported
that it captured the British schooner Flash with a cargo of cotton in the Gulf
of Mexico.  The Princess Royal also reported the capture of the sconner
Neptune,
whose cargo of salt had, according to the ship’s captain, “simply dissolved.”

1891 The Chokoloskee post office was established today.  

1912 Today residents of Mt. Pleasant in Gadsden County went to sleep with
small
flakes of snow falling.  When they awoke the next morning, they discovered
that
a 1/2 inch layer of “white rain” blanketed the ground and trees.

1951 Sixteen year old Hosea Richardson, who weighed 105 pounds, became the
first licensed African-American jockey in the State of Florida.

1961 Biscayne College was incorporated today in Miami.