Escambe (also known as San Cosme y San Damián de Cupaica, San Damián de Cupaica, San Cosmo y San Damías de Escambe, or San Damián de Cupahica) was a
Spanish Franciscan mission built in the 17th century in the
Florida Panhandle
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, three miles northwest of the present-day town of
Tallahassee,
Florida. It was part of Spain's effort to
colonize the region, and convert the
Timucuan and
Apalachee Indians
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to
Christianity. The mission lasted until 1704, when it was destroyed by a group of
Creek Indians and
South Carolinians.
The site where the original mission stood was added to the
U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1971.
San Damián de Cupaica was founded in 1639, the third Spanish mission in
Apalachee Province. San Damián survived James Moore's
invasion of Apalachee Province in January 1704, but was captured by
Creek
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* Creek people, also known as Muscogee, Native Americans
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warriors in June 1704. When the Spanish abandoned their headquarters in
San Luis de Talimali
Mission San Luis de Apalachee (also known as San Luis de Talimali) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in 1656 in the Florida Panhandle, two miles west of the present-day Florida Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida. It was located in the d ...
later that year, leaving all of the Apalachee Province unprotected, residents of Cupaica joined other Apalachees,
Chactatos and
Yemassees in migrating to the area of
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola is the principal ...
.
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A later mission named
San Joseph de Escambe
San Joseph de Escambe was an Apalachee mission community established in 1741 at the present-day community of Molino, Florida along the Escambia River north of Pensacola, lending its name both to the river and later to Escambia County, Florida. Tak ...
was established in 1741 at the present-day community of
Molino, Florida along the Escambia River north of
Pensacola, lending its name both to the river and later to
Escambia County, Florida.
See also
*
Spanish missions in Florida
Notes
References
*Milanich, Jerald T. (2006). ''Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians.'' University Press of Florida.
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