MARCO ISLAND, Fla. -. Over 15,000 people on Marco Island were without power for more than seven hours Sunday morning. Violent storm winds Saturday night caused the main transmission line feeding the island to go down, leaving many businesses and homes in the dark.
How did Florida get its name? It got its name by the Spanish words Pascua Florida meaning flowery easter. Juan Ponce De Leon, the Spanish Explorer named it this. florida received its name from when in 15 â¦ 27 DeVaca came over with Narvaez and they were looking for gold, when they just happened to stumble across this beautiful land that was bountiful with plant-life.
The history of Florida can be traced back to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago.ritten history begins with the arrival of Europeans to Florida; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon leÃ³n in 1513 made the first textual. records