De Soto National Memorial

This National Park site commemorates the 1539-1542 expedition of Hernando de Soto, the Spanish conquistador who explored the southern part of North America in a journey that covered 4,000 miles from Florida to Texas. De Soto National Memorial provides a ...

Calusa Heritage Trail, Randell Research Center at Pineland

The Calusa Heritage Trail is an interpreted path that leads visitors through the mounds, canals, and other features of the archaeological site at Pineland. Signs provide information about the Calusa, their environment, and the people who have lived at Pineland ...

Tomoka State Park, Nocoroco

Within the park is the Nocoroco Site, a Timucuan village reported by Spanish explorers in the early 1600s. The site is represented by a black earth and oyster shell midden. Artifacts recovered from the once-extensive midden indicate that the site ...

DeLeon Springs State Park

Native Americans visited and used these springs as long ago as 6,000 years. Legend and folklore claim Juan Ponce de Leon sought and discovered the mythical Fountain of Youth at DeLeon Springs, though no historical record or archaeological evidence supports ...

Urca de Lima Underwater Archaeological Preserve

The Urca de Lima Underwater Archaeological Preserve, at the site of one of the fabled Spanish plate flota (fleet) wrecks that sank during a hurricane in 1715 off present-day Fort Pierce, was opened to the public in September 1987. It ...

Sebastian Inlet State Park and McLarty Treasure Museum

Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail

The McLarty Treasure Museum features the history of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet. Also within the state park is the Sebastian Fishing Museum, which tells the history of the area's fishing industry.

The premier saltwater fishing spot ...

Anderson-Narvaez Mound at Jungle Prada Mound Park

Known as the Anderson-Narvaez Site after the 600-man Narvaez expedtion believed to have landed here in 1528, the public portion of the multi-mound site overlooks Boca Ciega Bay. The private portion, owned by the Anderson family, contains a 10-foot deep ...

Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

The Ximenez-Fatio House, a National Historic Landmark, is located on Aviles Street, America's first platted thoroughfare in the center of the city's oldest community, the Old Town area south of the Plaza. The museum complex includes a coquina stone house, ...

Fort Mose Historic State Park

In 1693 King Charles II of Spain decreed runaway slaves were to be given sanctuary in his colonies. Black fugitives from the British Colonies made their way south and fought against a British attack on St. Augustine. In 1728 the ...

Fort Matanzas National Monument

This National Monument commemorates the killing of nearly 250 French Huguenots by the Spanish, an act that gave the river and inlet the name Matanzas, Spanish for "slaughters." Spanish officials built a fort at the site 175 years later to ...