Timuquan Indian Mound
N 27° 56.616 W 082° 27.376
17R E 356732 N 3091807
A historical and religious Timuquan spot was destroied in the 1880s.
Waymark Code: WM5KRN
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2009
Views: 28
Near this site on the shore of the bay, once stood a large Timuquan Temple Mound dating before the time of Christ. It was 50 feet in height with a large leve space on top where elaborately decorated temples and residences of Indian chirfs and shamans had stood.
The Fort Brooke soldiers, in the 1840's, used a tall Gumbo Limbo tree growing at the crest of the city-block long mound a a lookout post. The ladies of the post enjoyed ice cream parties at the summit in a beautiful Chineese pavillion.
After the Army withdrew in 1882, the mound was razed to fill the Jackson Street ditch which extended from Marion Street to the river.
Marker Number: none
Date: none
County: Hillsborough
Marker Type: City
Sponsored or placed by: Timuquan Society and Tampa Historical Society
Website: Not listed
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