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

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Part I — Timucuan Preserve History

• Kingsley Plantation — Anna Kingsley
• Native Timucuan People and Newly Discovered Sarabay Settlement
• Fort Caroline — Fake News?

Part II — Timucuan Preserve Ecology (separate article coming soon)

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.