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2 unusual facts about Ponce de Leon


Gillman v. Holmes County School District

In early September 2007, a lesbian student at Ponce de Leon High School in Ponce de Leon, Florida, reported anti-gay harassment from fellow students to the school's principal, David Davis.

Ponce de Leon, Missouri

A health resort (named for the explorer Juan Ponce de León) was located here, and the community was named for the resort.


Anna Maria, Florida

Ponce de Leon was said to have named the island for Maria Anna von der Pfalz-Neuburg, the queen of Charles II of Spain, the sponsor of his expedition.

Café des Artistes

Other Christy works on display include paintings such as The Parrot Girl, The Swing Girl, Ponce De Leon, Fall, Spring, and the Fountain of Youth.


see also

Agüeybaná

Agüeybaná II, Güeybaná, brother of Agüeybaná "The Great Sun"; led the Tainos of Puerto Rico in the Battle of Yagüecas against Juan Ponce de León and Spanish Conquistadors

Agüeybaná II

Agüeybaná, the older, received Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León upon Ponce de León's arrival to Puerto Rico in 1508.

Andrés Scotti

Andrés was raised in Trinidad, the capital of Flores Department, he is the oldest son of María Cecilia Ponce de León and Carlos Scotti.

Druid Hills, Georgia

Druid Hills is home to The Atlanta Boy Choir on S. Ponce de Leon Ave. and Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, housed in the Gothic-Tudor style former estate of Charles Howard Candler, president of Coca-Cola and eldest son of Asa Griggs Candler, Coca-Cola's co-founder.

Fernando Ruiz de Castro

Divorced from his first wife, in 1367 he married Eleanor Enriquez, Lady of Melgar, widow of Alonso de Guzmán and daughter of Enrique Enriquez and his wife, Urraca Ponce de Leon.

Gerry Peñalosa

Many tough boxers were considered to be his possible next opponent, including Jorge Arce, Daniel Ponce de Leon, Eric Morel and Vic Darchinyan.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Pedro de Lara (1348–1384), Count of Mayorga, who married Beatriz de Castro, daughter of Álvaro Pérez de Castro and Maria Ponce de Leon, and granddaughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro.

Monica Ponce de Leon

Alongside Tehrani, Ms. Ponce de Leon received both the Young Architects Award in 1997 and the Emerging Voices Award in 2003 from the Architectural League of New York.

Ponce de Leon Avenue

Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though it may have originally started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector.