Shell Mound, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge

Florida Native American Heritage Trail

This area of the Wildlife Refuge contains a shell mound that was built up over a 1,000 year period. Between 1,800 and 400 years ago, native people used oysters and clams and food and discarded the ...

Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida

Exhibits describe the Native American chronology of the Okaloosa and Walton Counties area. Stone tools and projectile points used from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago and pottery made from 4,000 to 2,000 years ago are on display.

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Site of San Pedro de Potohiriba Historical Marker

In the mid 1600s San Pedro de Potohiriba, a Spanish mission, was established in this area on the Old Spanish Trail. The first courthouse of Madison County was erected at San Pedro, the county seat from 1828 to 1838.

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Florida Caverns State Park

One of the few state parks with dry (air filled) caves and the only Florida state park to offer cave tours to the public. The cave has dazzling formations of limestone stalactites, stalagmites, soda straws, flowstones and draperies.

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Historical Museum of Southern Florida

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida tells the stories of people in south Florida and the Caribbean from 12,000 years ago through the present. The Tropical Dreams: First Arrivals exhibit features information and artifacts about southern Florida's first inhabitants and ...

South Florida Museum

This museum houses the famous Montague Tallant Collection, one of the premier collections of Florida aboriginal artifacts from 1,700 years ago through European contact in the 1500s. The Archaic Man display contains artifacts and exhibit panels about people who lived ...

Halifax Historical Museum

The history of the greater Daytona Beach area is presented in numerous display cases containing thousands of artifacts and memorabilia organized by theme.

The Native American exhibits contain artifacts and replicas dating back from 3,000 B.C. through Spanish contact.

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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, ...

Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park

Within the boundaries of the park, St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States began. In the early 1900s, the property owner began charging admission to drink from spring waters located on the property, and ...

Dow Museum of Historic Houses, Old St. Augustine Village

Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail

Step back in time and enjoy the St. Augustine legacy of avid collector Kenneth Dow. Explore period decorated historic houses and galleries nestled among courtyards and gardens. The nine houses are original to the site and ...