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Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve

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Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve
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Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia. They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35 chiefdoms, many leading thousands of people. The various groups of Timucua spoke several dialects of the Timucua language. At the time of European contact, the territory occupied by speakers of Timucuan dialects occupied about 19,200 square miles , and was home to between 50,000 and 200,000 Timucuans. It stretched from the Altamaha River and Cumberland Island in present-day Georgia as far south as Lake George in central Florida, and from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Aucilla River in the Florida Panhandle, though it reached the Gulf of Mexico at no more than a couple of points. The name Timucua came from the exonym used by the Saturiwa to refer to the Utina, another group to the west of the St. Johns River. The Spanish came to use the term more broadly for other peoples in the area. Eventually it became the common term for all peoples who spoke what is known as Timucuan. While alliances and confederacies arose between the chiefdoms from time to time, the Timucua were never organized into a single political unit. The various groups of Timucua speakers practiced several different cultural traditions. The people suffered severely from the introduction of Eurasian infectious diseases, to which they had no immunity. By 1595, their population was estimated to have been reduced from 200,000 to 50,000 and thirteen chiefdoms remained. By 1700, the population of the tribe had been reduced to 1,000. Warfare against them by the English colonists and native allies completed their extinction as a tribe soon after the turn of the 19th century.
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