Site Name | Site | Site Type | Specimens | Time Period |
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Richardson Site | 8-AL-100 | mission | 11770 | 17th c. |
Alachua Sink | 8-AL-22 | ranch | 51 | 17th c. |
Fox Pond | 8-AL-272 | mission | 4846 | 17th c. |
Seminole site | 8-AL-296 | seminole | 781 | ca.1760-1850 |
Zetrouer A | 8-AL-66 | seminole | 424 | 17th c. |
Zetrouer B | 8-AL-67 | ranch | 8051 | 17th c. |
Ft. Pupo | 8-CL-10 | military | 5579 | 1740-1770 |
Ft. Heilman | 8-CL-11 | military | 673 | 1835-1842 |
Fig Springs | 8-CO-1 | mission | 4804 | 17th c. |
Brickell House | 8-DA-400 | trading post | 232 | |
Oven Hill | 8-DI-15 | seminole | 713 | 1760-1850 |
Kingsley Slave Quarters | 8-DU-108 | plantation | 9791 | 1780-1840 |
San Juan del Puerto | 8-DU-53 | mission | 21384 | 17th c. |
Fitzpatrick Plantation | 8-DU-82 | plantation | 428 | |
St. Johns Bluff, Sammis House | 8-DU-85 | plantation | 409 | 1770-1850 |
Gravely Hill Plantation | 8-DU-86 | plantation | 933 | |
Hart's Plantation | 8-DU-87 | plantation | 1069 | |
Houston Plantation | 8-DU-90 | plantation | 794 | |
Santa Rosa Pensacola | 8-ES-22 | domestic | 5156 | 1720-1752 |
Bulow Plantation | 8-FL-7 | plantation | 478 | ca.1800-1835 |
Fort Gadsden | 8-FR-50 | military | 65 | War of 1812 |
Pine Tuft Site | 8-JE-1 | mission | 385 | 17th c. |
Fort Fanning | 8-GI-2 | military | 564 | 1835-1842 |
Ft. Brooke | 8-HI-13A | military | 2163 | 1835-1842 |
Higgs site | 8-IR-24 | wreck salvage | 1410 | 1715 |
San Francisco de Oconee | 8-JE-2 | mission | 1903 | 17th c. |
Lumber camp dump, Messen Springs | 8-LA | lumber camp | 50 | 1900-1930 |
San Luis Mission | 8-LE-1 | mission | 1655 | 17th c. |
San Luis Fort | 8-LE-4 | military | 1826 | 1650-1704 |
Indian Key | 8-MO-15 | seminole | 402 | |
Fort Fowler | 8-MR-81 | seminole | 67 | |
Fernandina Plaza Lot | 8-NA-10 | domestic | 618 | |
Old Town Gate Site | 8-NA-12 | domestic | 21 | |
Harrison Plantation | 8-NA-41 | mission | 1827 | 17th c. |
Fort Clinch | 8-NA-53 | military | 511 | Civil War |
Spaldings Lower Store | 8-PU-23 | trading post | 23653 | 1770-1790 |
Rollestown Midden | 8-PU-64B | mixed | 602 | mixed |
Ft. Picolata | 8-SJ-67 | military | 195 | 1740-1770 |
Dade Battlefield | 8-SM-12 | military | 323 | 1835-1842 |
Baptizing Spring | 8-SU-65 | mission | 25479 | 17th c. |
Ruins of Addison Plantation, near Ormond | 8-VO-193 | plantation | 402 | ca.1800-1835 |
RICHARDSON SITE 8-AL-100
- The Richardson site is a historic-period Potano Indian village, thought to be an early seventeenth century mission visita. It was excavated and reported by Jerald T Milanich in 1971
- Milanich, Jerald T. 1972 Excavations at the Richardson Site, Alachua County, Florida: An Early 17th Century Potano Indian Village (with Notes on Potano Culture Change). Florida Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties Bulletin 2:35-61.
ALACHUA SINK 8-AL-22
- This is thought to be the site of a Spanish cattle ranch during the seventeenth century, possibly that of La Chua. Materials were collected by the landowner while plowing and cleaning out a sinkhole, and were acquired by John Goggin in the early 1960’s. Subsequent test excavations by Henry Baker produced a collection that is curated at the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee.
- Baker, Henry A. 1993 Spanish Ranching and the Alachua Sink Site: A Preliminary Report. Florida Anthropologist 46:82-100
FOX POND 8-AL-272
- Fox Pond is a seventeenth century Timucua mission village (pre 1656), thought to be associated with the San Francisco de Potano mission. It was excavated by John Goggin and students ca. 1963.
- Symes, Martha, and M.E. Stephens 1965 A 272: the Fox Pond Site. Florida Anthropologist 18:65-76.
SEMINOLE SITE 8-AL-296
- Sears, William H. 1959 A-296–A Seminole Site in Alachua County. Florida Anthropologist 12:25-30.
ZETROUER SITE 8-AL-66/67
- The Zetrouer site is thought to have been a seventeenth century Spanish cattle ranch, with a later Seminole period component. It was excavated by John Goggin and his students in the late 1940s.
- Goggin, John M. , M.E. Godwin, E. Hester, D. Prange, and R. Spangenberg. 1949 A historic Indian burial, Alachua County, Florida. Florida Anthroplogist 2:10-24
- Seaberg, Lillian M. 1955 The Zetrouer Site: Indian and Spanish in Central Florida. Master’s thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville
- Goggin, John1968 Spanish majolica in the New World. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 72. Yale University Press, New Haven.
FT PUPO 8-CL-10
- Ft. Pupo was a Spanish blockhouse on the St. Johns River, occupied from the late seventeenth to until 1740. It was excavated by John Goggin and colleagues in 1950.
- 1951 Fort Pupo: a Spanish Frontier Outpost. Florida Historical Quarterly 30:139-192
FT HEILMAN 8-CL-11
- Ft. Heilman was a U.S. Army fort during the second Seminole war. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1951. No report has been found.
FIG SPRINGS 8-CO-1
- The Fig Springs site the site of a seventeenth century Spanish mission, thought to have been destroyed in 1656. The collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History include primarily the underwater component of the site, that is, materials collected by John Goggin from Fig Springs in the Ichtucknee River. Materials from later excavations on the terrestrial parts of the site by Brent Weisman are curated at the Florida Bureau of Historical Resources.
- Deagan, Kathleen A. 1972 Fig Springs: The Mid-Seventeenth Century in North-Central Florida. Historical Archaeology 6:23-46.
- Goggin, John 1968 Spanish majolica in the New World. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 72. Yale University Press, New Haven.
BRICKELL HOUSE 8-DA-400
- The Brickell house and trading posts were occupied during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The materials in the FLMNH collection were surface collected by John Goggin in the 1950’s. the site was later tested by Robert Carr.
- Carr, Robert S. 1981 The Brickell Store and Seminole Indian Trade. Florida Anthropologist 34:180-199.
OVEN HILL 8-DI-15
- Oven Hill is an early Seminole occupation site, dating to the last third of the 18th century. It has a land component, and an underwater refuse component. Both components were excavated by John Goggin and his students between 1958 and 1962.
- Gluckman, Stephen J., and Christopher S. Peebles 1974 Oven Hill (Di-15), a Refuge Site in the Suwannee River. Florida Anthropologist 27:21-30.
KINGSLEY PLANTATION SLAVE QUARTERS 8-DU-108
- The site includes the tabby structures that housed the slaves of Zephaniah Kingsley during the Second Spanish period of Florida. The site was excavated by Charles Fairbanks between 1969 and 1971.
- Fairbanks, Charles 1974 The Kingsley slave cabins in Duval county, Florida. Conference on Historic sites Archaeology Papers, 1972. 7:62-93.
- Fairbanks, Charles 1984 The plantation archaeology of the southeastern coast Historical Archaeology 18(1):1-14.
- Walker, Karen Jo 1987 Kingsley and his slaves: anthropological interpretation and evaluation. MA thesis. Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO 8-DU-53
- San Juan del Puerto is the site of the 17th century Spanish mission of the same name. The FLMNH collections were recovered through excavation and surface collected by John W. Griffin in 1955, and Mr. William Jones of Jacksonville in 1961.
- Griffin, John W. 1960 Preliminary papers on the site of the mission of San Juan del Puerto, Fort George Island, Florida. Papers of the Jacksonville Historical Society 4:63-66.
- McMurray, Judith A. 1973 The Definition of the Ceramic Complex at San Juan del Puerto. Master’s thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville
FITZPATRICK PLANTATION 8-DU-82
- This site is thought to have been a British period-Second Spanish period plantation. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1957. No report has been found.
SAMMIS HOUSE, ST. JOHNS BLUFF 8-DU-85
- This site is thought to have been a British period-Second Spanish period plantation. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1957. No report has been found.
GRAVELY HILL PLANTATION 8-DU-86
- This site is thought to have been a Second Spanish period plantation. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1959. No report has been found.
HARTS PLANTATION 8-DU-87
- This site is thought to have been Second Spanish period plantation. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1959. No report has been found.
HOUSTON PLANTATION 8-DU-90
- This is thought to have been the plantation owned by John Houston during the Second Spanish period. It was surface collected by John Goggin in 1960. No report has been found.
SANTA ROSA PENSACOLA 8-ES-22
- The site of Santa Rosa Pensacola was occupied by Spanish Pensacola from 1720 to 1752. It was excavated by Hale Smith in 1964. Portions of the collection are also curated at the Florida State University Department of Anthropology.
- Smith, Hale G. 1965 Santa Rosa Pensacola. Florida State University Notes in Anthropology 10.
BULOW PLANTATION 8-FL-7
- Bulow was a late eighteenth to early nineteenth century sugar plantation. The site was surface collected by Charles Fairbanks in 1966. The surviving remains of the industrial complex were studied by Curtis Peterson and architect Herschel Shepard, and the unpublished maps are on file at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
FT. GADSDEN 8-FR-50
- Fort Gadsden, also known as the “Negro Fort” was occupied during the War of 1812 by former Black slaves and Creek Indians sympathetic to the British. It was destroyed in 1816, rebuilt in 1818 by Andrew Jackson, and abandoned in 1821. Excavations were carried out there in 1961-62 under Hale G. Smith.
- Griffin, John W. 1950 An archaeologist at Ft. Gadsden. The Florida Historical Quarterly 26:254-261
- Poe, Stephen R. 1963 Archaeological excavations at Fort Gadsden, Florida. Notes in Anthropology # 8. Tallahassee: Florida State University Anthropology Department.
PINE TUFT SITE 8-JE-1
- Pine Tuft is the site of San Juan de Aspalaga, a seventeenth century Spanish mission to the Apalachee Indians. The collections at the FLMNH were excavated by Hale Smith during the early 1950’s. Additional excavations were carried out in 1968 by The Florida Bureau of Historical Resources, and the collections from that work are curated at the Bureau’s Tallahassee facility.
- Morrell, L. Ross and B. Calvin Jones 1970 San Juan de Aspalaga: A preliminary architectural study. Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties Bulletin 1: 25-43. Florida Department of State, Tallahassee.
- Smith, Hale G. 1956 The European and the Indian. Florida Anthropological Society Publications # 4.
FT. FANNING 8-GI-2
- Ft. Fanning was a U.S. Army fort during the second Seminole War. It was surface collected by John Goggin and students in the 1960’s. No report has been found.
FT. BROOKE 8-HI-13A
- Fort Brooke was a U.S. army post from 1824-1882, and figured prominently in the Second Seminole War. The FLMNH collection was excavated by John Goggin in 1951. No report has been located; field records are at the FLMNH.
HIGGS SITE 8-IR-24
- The Higgs site is thought to have been a salvage camp occupied in 1716 by Spaniards and Indians who were attempting to salvage remains of the Spanish plate fleet ships that sank in 1715. It was excavated in 1948 by Hale G. Smith.
- Aga-Oglu, Kamer 1955 Late Ming and Early Ch’ing Porcelain Fragments from Archaeological Sites in Florida. Florida Anthropologist 8:91-110.
- Smith, Hale G. 1949 Two Archaeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida Florida Anthropological society Publications # 1. Gainesville.
SAN FRANCISCO DE OCONEE 8-JE-2
- The site of San Francisco de Oconee was a seventeenth century Spanish mission to the Apalachee Indians. It was excavated by Hale Smith in the late 1940’s.
- Smith, Hale G. 1950 A Spanish mission site in Jefferson county. In Here they Once Stood, by M. Boyd, H. Smith and John Griffin. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Pp. 105-136.
MESSEN SPRINGS 8-LA
- Messen Spring was the site of a lumber camp during the early part of the 20th century. The collection is from surface collections made at the site.
SAN LUIS MISSION 8-LE-1
- On LOAN to San Luis Archaeological and Historical site, Tallahassee
SAN LUIS FORT 8-LE-4
- On LOAN to San Luis Archaeological and Historical site, Tallahassee
INDIAN KEY 8-MO-15
- During the 1820’s and 1830’s Indian Key was the site of a small community including a trading post and hotel, and headquarters for turtle fisherman and salvage wreckers. . In 1838 Henry Perrine established a nursery for tropical agricultural plants there. The town was destroyed and abandoned in an Indian attack in 1840. A naval installation and hospital was there from 1840-1842. The collections at the FLMNH were surface collected by John Goggin in 1951. the site was later excavated by Henry Baker of the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Resources, and those collections are curated in Tallahassee.
- Baker, Henry 1973 Archaeological Investigations at Indian Key, Florida. Division of Archives, History and Records Management Miscellaneous Project Report # 7. Tallahassee
- Schene, Micheal 1973 History of Indian Key. Florida. Division of Archives, History and Records ManagementMiscellaneous Project Report # 8. Tallahassee
FORT FOWLER 8-MR-81
- Fort Fowler was a U.S. Army fort during the Second Seminole war. Material were surface collected by Christopher Peebles in 1964. No report has been found.
FERNANDINA PLAZA LOT (Ft. San Carlos) 8-NA-10
- The town plaza of Fernandina was also the site of a seventeenth century Yamassee/guale Indian town, with a Spanish sentinel building, abandoned in 1701. The site was thought to be part of British and Second Spanish period orange plantations. A Spanish battery was constructed threre in 1802, and Fort San Carlos was built in 1816. It served as a Spanish defense until Florida became a US territory in 1821. It was excavated in 1950 by John Griffin and Ripley Bullen, and in 1963 by Hale Smith.
- Bullen, Ripley P. and John W. Griffin 1952 An Archaeological Survey of Amelia Island, Florida. Florida Anthropologist 5:37-64.
- Smith, Hale and Ripley Bullen 1971 Fort San Carlos. Florida State University Notes in Anthropology # 14. Tallahassee
OLD TOWN GATE SITE 8-NA-12
- This is part of Fort San Carlos (1816-1821), excavated in 1963 by Hale Smith.(see 8-NA-10)
- Smith, Hale and Ripley Bullen 1971 Fort San Carlos. Florida State University Notes in Anthropology # 14. Tallahassee
SANTA CATALINA DE SANTA MARIA MISSION (HARRISON PLANTATION) 8-NA-41
- Harrison Plantation was the site of Santa Catalina de Santa Maria, a seventeenth century Spanish mission to the Timucua Indians. It was tested in 1972 by E. Thomas Hemmings and Kathleen Deagan, and subsequently extensively excavated by Rebecca Saunders and Jerald Milanich in the late 1980’s.
- Hemmings, E. Thomas, and Kathleen A. Deagan 1973 Excavations on Amelia Island in Northeast Florida. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Anthropology and History 18. Gainesville
- Milanich, Jerald T., and Rebecca Saunders 1986 The Spanish Castillo and the Franciscan Doctrina of Santa Catalina, at Santa Maria, Amelia Island, Florida (8Na41). Miscellaneous Project Report 20. DA.
- Saunders, Rebecca. 1987 Excavations at 8Na41: Two Mission Period Sites on Amelia Island, Florida. Miscellaneous Project Report 35. DA.
- Saunders, Rebecca. 1990 Ideal and Innovation: Spanish Mission Architecture in the Southeast. In Columbian Consequences, vol 2. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East, edited by David Hurst Thomas, pp. 527-542. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Saunders, Rebecca. 1992b Guale Indian Pottery: A Georgia Legacy in Northeast Florida. Florida Anthropologist 45:139-147.
- Saunders, Rebecca. 1992b Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1350-1702. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, Gainesville.
- Saunders, Rebecca. 1993 Architecture of Missions Santa Mar?a and Santa Catalina de Amelia. In Spanish Missions of La Florida, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 35-61. Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Saunders, Rebecca. 2000 Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1350-1702 Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
FT. CLINCH 8-NA-53
- Ft. Clinch was a civil war-era fort. The collection was surface collected by William Jones in the early 1960’s. No report has been found.
SPALDINGS LOWER STORE 8-PU-23
- This was a British trading post to the Seminole on the St. John’s river from 1763-1784. It was excavated by John Goggin in the late 1940’s.
- Lewis, Kenneth 1969 History and archaeology of Spaulding’s lower store (PU-23), Putnam County, Florida.Unpublished MA thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville.
- Goggin, John 1949 A Florida Indian trading post, ca. 1763-1784. Southern Indian Studies 1:35-38. Chapel Hill.
- Goggin, John 1952 Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archaeology, Florida. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 47. New Haven.
ROLLESTOWN MIDDEN 8-PU-64B
- This is a deeply stratified site occupied from preceramic times through the British period. It has a major eighteenth century component, thought to have been occupied by historic period Timucua Indians. It was surface-collected by John Goggin and Hale Smith .
- Goggin, John 1952 Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archaeology, Florida. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 47. New Haven.
- Goggin, John 1968 Spanish majolica in the New World. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 72. Yale University Press, New Haven.
- Smith, Hale G. 1956 The European and the Indian. Florida Anthropological Society Publications # 4.
FT. PICOLATA 8-SJ-67
- Surface collections were made by John Goggin and William Jones at the presumed site of Fort Picolata, which was a Spanish blockhouse occupied from the 1680’s until ca. 1765. No report has been located.
DADE BATTLEFIELD 8-SM-12
- Site of the opening battle of the Second Seminole War. Artifacts were excavated from within the log breastwork by Vernon Berry, J.C. Getzen, et al, in 1964. Transferred to Florida Museum of Natural History from the Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials in 1965.
BAPTIZING SPRING 8-SU-65
- Baptizing Spring is thought to be the site of either San Juan de Guacara or San Agustín de Urica, Spanish missions to the Timucua during the first half of the 17th century. The village area of the mission was excavated by Charles Fairbanks and L. Jill Loucks in 1977-1978.
- Loucks, L. Jill. 1978 Political and Economic Interactions between the Spaniards and Indians: Archeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives of the Mission System in Florida. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, Gainesville.
- Loucks, L. Jill. 1993 Spanish-Indian Interaction on the Florida Missions: The Archaeology of Baptizing Spring. In Spanish Missions of La Florida, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 193-216. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
ADDISON PLANTATION 8-VO-193
- The Addison Plantation site was an indigo and subsequently a sugar plantation between the 1770’s and the 1830’s. A blockhouse that came to be known as Fort McRae was built at the site in ca. 1830, and was abandoned in 1836. The site was excavated by Jack Winters of the Florida Park Service in 1939, and reported by John W. Griffin.
- Griffin, John W. 1952 The Addison Blockhouse. The Florida Historical Quarterly 30(3):276-93.