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To: piasa; ianync; Destro
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2 posted on 08/21/2002 11:00:55 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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3 posted on 08/21/2002 11:07:05 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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In the about 1768, over 200 Greeks came to the NEW British colony of Florida to settle New Smyrna. Britain had gained Florida after the French and Indian War from Spain and was anxious to populate it.

An Englishman man named Dr. Trumbull was married to a Greek woman from Smyrna. They wanted to bring some of her people out of Greece which was suffering under the Turkish yoke.

The colony in New Smyrna failed after about 9 hard years and the 90 surviving Greeks took refuge in St. Augustine in a house on St. George Street.

Today that house is a Shrine to the memories of those the first Greeks in America and refugees from Turkish oppression. It is called St. Photios Greek Orthodox Shrine. It is has a lovely chapel and a museum inside.

4 posted on 08/21/2002 11:18:40 PM PDT by crazykatz
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