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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National MemorialInside the reconstructed Fort Caroline
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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
Fort Caroline National Memorial
 

Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida. Here you will find stories of exploration, survival, religious disputes, territorial battles, and first contact between American Indians and Europeans.

Visiting Fort Caroline National Memorial

History of La Caroline

 
Cannon, historic drawing of Timucua, ranger with children at the reconstruced hut
Pareja's Confessionario  

Did You Know?
The first translation of a Native American language into a European language – Timucuan to Spanish - occurred on lands within the Timucuan Preserve in the late 1500s. Fray Francisco Pareja did this translation at the Catholic mission of San Juan del Puerto on present day Ft. George Island.
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