Tequesta
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Markerman62
N 25° 46.557 W 080° 11.515
17R E 581025 N 2851120
Located in the front entrance to Gesu Catholic Church on NE 1st Ave at NE 2nd St.
Waymark Code: WMXXF6
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2018
Views: 6
Indians lived at the mouth of the Miami River (200 yards southwest of this spot) for more than 15 centuries before White men came. The principal town of the Tequesta Indians, including six mounds used for dwelling, burial, and religious rites, was discovered here by the Spaniards. They built in it the earliest White settlement in S. E. Florida, a fort and Jesuit mission, in 1567. When the British obtained Florida in 1763, most of the Tequesta departed with the Spaniards to Havana and thereafter vanished as a tribe.
Marker Number: None
Date: 1951
County: Miami-Dade
Marker Type: City
Sponsored or placed by: Historical Association of Southern Florida
Website: Not listed
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