DeSotos 1539 CAMP FOUND IN MARION COUNTY

[ECS]

DeSoto's 1539 CAMP FOUND IN MARION COUNTY

Ashley White has discovered a campsite used by DeSoto in 1539 at Citra on Orange Lake.
Items found include coins,chainmail,beads,and domestic pig jawbones.
Additional info:
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[Jon Phillips]

Awesome set of stories there!

That's what archaeologists should be doing.

I wonder if it would have ever been found, if it wasn't on their own land? I doubt there would be any digging without grant money otherwise....

 

[ECS]

The APPELTON MUSEUM in Ocala plans to exhibit the DeSoto site finds this October.
Marion county has always been a rich source for artifacts-
Fossils,shark teeth,mastadon teeth & bones,etc
Native American arrowheads,pottery shards
Seminole War musket balls,US insignia & forts
Civil War Union & Confederate atrifacts,and the sites of several plantations & forts
Sunken riverboats & riverboat landings
Carmichael whiskey bottles
Items from cypress logging on the Oklawaha River
Ma Barker bullets and shells