Miccosukee Indian Village and Museum

The Miccosukee Indian Village offers demonstrations and exhibits of woodcarving, patchwork, beadwork, basket weaving, and doll making.

Founded in 1983, the Miccosukee Museum of Natural and Tribal History features clothing, paintings, and artifacts from the tribe.

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Crane Point Nature Center Museums, and Historic Site

Exhibits about Native Americans in the Florida Keys include a 600-year-old dugout canoe.

Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State.

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Loxahatchee River Historical Museum

The permanent exhibit, Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee, includes displays about pre-Spanish contact periods dating from 5,000 to 500 years ago.

Also on display are Seminole artifacts and a replica of a Seminole village.

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Jupiter Inlet Historic and Archaeological Site, Dubois Park

Dubois Park contains the remains of a village occupied by the Jobe and their predecessors from 1,000 years ago.

The shell midden, or trash pile, from the village site is 20 feet high. Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant whose family ...

Sarasota County History Center

The Sarasota County History Center maintains an archive, museum, and reference service for public interest and research, and an exhibit on people who lived in the area before the arrival of Europeans.

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Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site

This ancient Native American site was the first in Florida to be designated a State Archaeological Site. Karl and Madira Bickel donated the mound and surrounding property to the state in 1948. The flat-topped ceremonial mound-composed of sand, shell, and ...

Big Cypress National Preserve Oasis Visitor Center

The Big Cypress Swamp became a refuge for Seminole and Miccosukee people remaining in Florida at the end of the third Seminole War in 1858.

Today, a large portion of the swamp is within the boundaries of the Big Cypress ...

Fort Center, Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area

Used as a location for a small fort during the Second and Third Seminole War, archaeological remains at Fort Center consist of mounds, ponds, circular ditches, and linear embankments built about 2,000 years ago.

At the site, bundles of human ...

Olde Marco Museum

The Calusa culture, dominant in the area from 2,000 to 500 years ago, is the premier exhibit at this museum.

Some of the most important finds in North American pre-European archaeology are depicted in photographs, including finds from the Key ...

Billie Swamp Safari, Big Cypress Reservation

Billie Swamp Safari offers firsthand experience of the wildlife and environment of the everglades.

Overnight guests sleep in a native-style chickee hut. There are also day and evening swamp tours, and campfire stories about the history and legends of the ...