Memories of The Past

This blogging challenge has turned out to be a wonderful experience, and it makes you stop to think about what you want to write. Sometimes it is hard to do because there are some things that you just do not think people would read. However, this post is going to be about the people who … Continue reading Memories of The Past →

Learning New Things About Your Family History

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The Timucuans, Florida’s First People

This is interesting! I enjoy reading about history and learning more about the places around us….

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Florida’s First People

Today’s Blog is about one of the very earliest residents of Florida, the Timucuan Indians.

It is pronounced, tee-MOO-qua.

Our home here in Central Florida is on land where these Ancient people once lived.

The St. John’s River, which flows from South to North, not far from us, was of great historical importance to the Timucuans and several other local tribes here in Central Florida.

The Timucuans, were a rather tall, and slim race of Native people, who lived in this area, in the 1500’s and were estimated to number between 50,000 to 200,000 at the time.

But, by 1700, thanks to the diseases brought by the invading Spanish, their numbers had dwindled down to around 1,000.

By 1800, they were considered to be likely completely eliminated or extinct.

Interbreeding with the “ invaders” was the final blow to these once thriving Native people…

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