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Show West Coast Settled Before East Coast Although much is heard about Florida's east coast, the west coas' on the Gulf of Mexico is equallj notable. From 10 to 30 years before St Augustine was founded, then were Spanish settlements at Tamp-Bay, Tamp-Bay, Charlotte Harbor and Pensa cola. Much of the interior of west em Florida had been explored anc oranges had been Introduced be fore either the Dons or the Frenct had erected their first fort on th east coast. On the romantic Gulf coast 0-Florida 0-Florida is historical Tampa and its famous spring, Espiritu Santo where De Soto slacked his thirst |