West Florida

British West Florida was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1763 until effective British control ended in 1781 when Spain captured Pensacola, with formal cession to Spain in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Parts of West Florida were gradually annexed piecemeal by the United States beginning in 1810, and by 1817 much of Spanish West Florida had been occupied and annexed by the United States, later becoming parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Spain ceded both Floridas to the United States in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, with formal possession in 1821, and in 1822 the remaining portions of West Florida were merged with East Florida into the single Territory of Florida.

Pre-contact era

The first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. The Apalachee people lived in the missions of the Florida panhandle region and were required by Spaniards to send workers to St. Augustine annually.

Colonial history

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