DeSoto Site Historic State Park is a Florida state park located in Tallahassee, Florida. It consists of 5 acres of land near Apalachee Parkway, including the residence of former Governor John W. Martin.
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History Buffs of Early Florida won't want to miss this one. There's plenty of Wiki out there, but I'll bullet-point some of the key points:
In 1987, archaeologist Calvin Jones discovered conclusive evidence of DeSoto and nearly 600 armed men encamped here. 40,000 artifacts were unearthed.
Evidence? - Well, consider the following:
Chain mail armor. Copper coins, Crossbow bolt tip. Spanish trade beads Spanish olive jar fragments
The icing on the cake? - a hog jawbone. Hogs weren't in the New World.
Anyway - I'll be adding photos over the coming weeks - but this just serves to remind you that history is alive and well in TLH!
I'm a history buff. Frankly, it's cheap entertainment - and it gets you out of the house.
Governor Martin's house, not coincidentally, is at the precise location of DeSoto's encampment during the winter of 1539/1540. If you're anywhere near Cascades park - it's worth the detour to check this out.
Really.
What else are you...
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The photos of huts and de Soto’s Camp Uzita are from the De Soto National Memorial Park in Tampa Bay, NOT here. This site is the location of Hernando de Soto’s winter encampment from his 1539-40 expedition route, though there is no physical evidence of that fact besides some signs and markers rich with information. The beautiful home of former FL Governor John W. Martin is also here, which is now home to the Florida Bureau of Archeological Research at the B. Calvin Jones Center for Archeology at the Governor Martin House — there is an information centre and small museum inside the house. It’s a nice, quick,...
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Please see Daniel Pineau's excellent review below. I'll clear a few things up for the many imbeciles that just see "park" on Google Maps and lack context and local knowledge. Florida has no state income tax. Florida's state govt relies tourism tax dollars to fund everything. Florida's elected officials all too often care little about public health, let alone history and archaeology---hence sites deserving of being a major archaeological park, such as this site, end up, at best, with interpretive signs and plaques. If you would like to see this change, elect...
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