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Site Type

Ranch

Number of Specimens

51

Time Period

17th c.

Site History

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.

Publications and Reports

Baker, Henry A.
1993 Spanish Ranching and the Alachua Sink Site: A Preliminary Report. Florida Anthropologist 46:82-100

Site Type

Mission

Number of Specimens

4804

Time Period

17th c.

Site Excavation and Analysis History

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.

Publications and Reports

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.

Site Type

Trading Post

Number of Specimens

232

Time Period

ca.1865

Site Excavation and Analysis History

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 1950s. the site was later tested by Robert Carr.

Publications and Reports

Carr, Robert S.
1981 The Brickell Store and Seminole Indian Trade. Florida Anthropologist 34:180-199.

Site Type

Plantation

Number of Specimens

478

Time Period

ca.1800-1835

Site Excavation and Analysis History

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The surviving remains of the industrial complex were studied by Curtis Peterson and architect Herschel Shepard, and the unpublished maps are on file at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Publications and Reports

No known reports or publications associated with this collection.

Site Type

Mission

Number of Specimens

1827

Time Period

17th c.

Site Excavation and Analysis History

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 1980s.

Publications and Reports

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.

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.

1992b Guale Indian Pottery: A Georgia Legacy in Northeast Florida. Florida Anthropologist 45:139-147.

1992b Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1350-1702. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, Gainesville.

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

2000 Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1350-1702 Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Site Type

Mission

Number of Specimens

25479

Time Period

17th c.

Site Excavation and Analysis History

Baptizing springs 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.

Publications and Reports

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.

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.

Site Type

Plantation

Number of Specimens

402

Time Period

ca.1800-1835

Site Excavation and Analysis History

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

Publications and Reports

Griffin, John W.
1952 The Addison Blockhouse. The Florida Historical Quarterly 30(3):276-93.

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Charles Cobb, Curator
Gifford Waters, Collection Manager

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