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In 2020, archeologists confirmed that Mound Key was the site of Fort San Antón de Carlos, which was a Spanish fort as well as one of the first Jesuit sites in North America. The fort was abandoned in 1569, after the Spanish-Calusa alliance broke apart. The fort is also the oldest known North American example of Tabby concrete. [2]
San Antonio de Carlos, established in 1567, [1] was the first Jesuit mission in the New World. [2] [3] The site is located in what is now Mound Key Archaeological State Park off Estero Bay in Florida and what was the cultural center of the Calusa or Calos people, who lived in the area for more than 2,000 years.
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
Originally known as Fort Houstoun (HOUSE-ton), it was built on Lakeland Plantation, owned by Edward Houstoun, whose 1,280 acres encompassed today's Myers Park and Woodland Drives neighborhood.
Old Stone Fort: 40CF1 Woodland 1966 State Park ... fort reconstructed Chota: 40MR2 Cherokee 1939, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974 ... Myers Mound: 40WR5 Archaic, Woodland ...
As recently as 2006, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake centered about 260 miles (420 km) southwest of Tampa and west of Fort Myers in the Gulf of Mexico sent shock waves through southwest and central Florida. The earthquake was too small to trigger a tsunami and no damage was reported.
Fort Center is an archaeological site in Glades County, Florida, United States, a few miles northwest of Lake Okeechobee. It was occupied for more than 2,000 years, from 450 BCE until about 1700 CE. It was occupied for more than 2,000 years, from 450 BCE until about 1700 CE.
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