Escambe
title: "Escambe" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1639-establishments-in-north-america", "1639-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire", "apalachee", "archaeological-sites-in-florida", "demolished-buildings-and-structures-in-florida", "former-populated-places-in-leon-county,-florida", "national-register-of-historic-places-in-leon-county,-florida", "muscogee", "spanish-missions-in-florida", "timucua"] topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escambe" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Escambe |
| image | Site of Escambe, an Apalachee village, where the first of over a dozen Apalachee-Spanish Missions was founded in 1639.jpg |
| caption | Site of Escambe |
| coordinates | |
| locmapin | Florida#USA |
| location | Leon County, Florida, USA |
| nearest_city | Tallahassee, Florida |
| added | May 14, 1971 |
| refnum | 71000240 |
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| name = Escambe | image = Site of Escambe, an Apalachee village, where the first of over a dozen Apalachee-Spanish Missions was founded in 1639.jpg | caption = Site of Escambe | coordinates = | locmapin = Florida#USA | location = Leon County, Florida, USA | nearest_city = Tallahassee, Florida | area = | added = May 14, 1971 | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | governing_body = | refnum = 71000240
Escambe (also known as San Cosme y San Damián de Cupaica, San Damián de Cupaica, San Cosmo y San Damías de Escambe, or San Damián de Cupahica) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the 17th century in the Florida Panhandle, three miles northwest of the present-day town of Tallahassee, Florida. It was part of Spain's effort to colonize the region, and convert the Timucuan and Apalachee Indians to Christianity. The mission lasted until 1704, when it was destroyed by a group of Creek Indians and South Carolinians.
The site where the original mission stood was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1971.
San Damián de Cupaica was founded in 1639, the third Spanish mission in Apalachee Province. San Damián survived James Moore's invasion of Apalachee Province in January 1704, but was captured by Creek warriors in June 1704. When the Spanish abandoned their headquarters in San Luis de Talimali later that year, leaving all of the Apalachee Province unprotected, residents of Cupaica joined other Apalachees, Chatatos and Yemassees in migrating to the area of Pensacola, Florida.
A later mission named San Joseph de Escambe was established in 1741 at the present-day community of Molino, Florida along the Escambia River north of Pensacola, lending its name both to the river and later to Escambia County, Florida.
Notes
References
- Milanich, Jerald T. (2006). Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians. University Press of Florida.
- Leon County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Leon County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- at
- Pensacola Colonial Frontiers project homepage
- Mission San Joseph de Escambe
References
- {{NRISref. (January 2023)
- Milanich:125, 184-5, 187
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