where did Ponce de Leon go to find the Fountain of Youth?

He didn't. His entire story is a myth, fabricated by his descendants to protect the family fortune.

Ponce De Leon never made the trip across the Atlantic. He was deathly afraid of water and boats. He went overland from Madrid to Budapest, where he laid low while his brother Raphael took his place on the voyage. It was a plan much like the fictitious trip Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are supposed to have taken to the moon. (That whole episode was filmed in a subterranean sound stage in South Philadelphia.)

However, Ponce was shrewd enough to realize his brother would get all the credit (and reward) for the trip so he had his 2nd cousin, twice removed (Pedro Sanchez) join the crew with instructions to kill Raphael before the trip home. Pedro did the deed outside what is now Punta Gorda Florida and blamed it on the Calusa Indians.

The myth that Ponce de Leon sailed with Columbus and served in various administrative positions in the Indies is equally erroneous. Sanchez was, in effect, the first Caribbean pirate. He pillaged several Spanish treasure troves in the Indies, and raped and pillaged his way through Jamaica, Aruba, the present Virgin Islands, and, finally, Florida. He sired 16 sons and 12 daughters with several native wives. The children passed down his story and their progeny continue to repeat the oral histories to this day at pow wows across the country. Osceola is descended of Pedro Sanchez according to Seminole legend.

As for the fountain of youth, Pedro Sanchez made up the legend himself as an excuse to make his numerous raiding trips and to convince the Spanish crown and Royal representatives in the West to finance them.

As rumors began to circulate that Sanchez was not zealously pursuing crown interests, Ponce de Leon sent assassins to the New World and had him killed, once again blaming the death on the peaceful indigenous folk. That done, De Leon's family and cohorts in Iberia, Budapest, Florida and the West Indies began a counter-propaganda campaign about the fountain of youth. Their campaign was successful enough to quash the adverse rumors, and the de Leon fortune and place in history was secured.

I doubt you will find corroboration of this account in Western histories, but as the great great great ..... grandson of Pedro Sanchez and his 3rd Calusa wife, I can attest to the veracity of this story via family traditions.

Bimini Island. Website:

socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/juanponcedeleon1.htm

correct St Augustine Fla.

Florida - St. Augustine

No. It was just a mith. Though on his voyage to find it he killed many Indians, because they had never heard of it.

Artsy is correct.