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- ↑ "San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park - St. Marks, Florida". Explore Southern History. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ↑ Antonio de Alcedo (1787). Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América: es á saber. en la Imprenta de Benito Cano. p. 147.