Timucuan — An Overview of the Ecological and Historical Preserve in Jacksonville, FL, USA

Did you know that Florida’s Fort Caroline has been called a scam? Did you know that a freed African slave woman in America was given full charge of the Kingsley plantation as wife of the owner? Did you know some of the oldest pottery in America was found in the Timucuan Preserve, and that in recent years new evidence of the Mocama tribe’s lost village of Sarabay may have been excavated? While there is much history to be told beyond these questions, my article will focus on these. We recently visited some of the sites in the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve in Northeast Florida <a href="https://angleandperspective.com/2024/01/15/solar-charged-first-free-national-park-day-spent-timucuan-preserve/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">(Read here)</a>. What started as a fairly mundane trip has led to more interesting finds: A great controversy as to the location of Fort Caroline, a post-freed female slave in charge of Kingsley Plantation, and new discoveries of Indigenous Timucuan people’s existence in the Jacksonville area. <a href="https://medium.com/angle-and-perspective/timucuan-an-overview-of-the-ecological-and-historical-preserve-in-jacksonville-fl-usa-6725db077039">Learn More</a>