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The Black Hammock Wilderness Area is a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) joint purchase between Seminole County, Florida and the St. Johns River Water Management District. [2] It was acquired as part of a comprehensive effort to preserve significant habitat along the shores of Lake Jesup.
Black Hammock Wilderness Area, area in Seminole County, Florida This page was last edited on 20 September 2024, at 04:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Black Hammock Island is an island located in the Northside area of Jacksonville, Florida, in the United States. The island is surrounded by marsh, and is almost directly adjacent to the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Cedar Point, operated by the National Park Service, is located at the south end of Black Hammock Island. [1]
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Pages in category "Wilderness areas of Florida" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Billies Bay Wilderness; Black Hammock Wilderness Area;
Archaeologists have excavated a site on Black Hammock Island in the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve that may be the site of the Santa Cruz mission. The Cedar Point archaeological site (8Du81) is at the south end of Black Hammock Island, and has been occupied off and on for over 4,000 years, from the Archaic period until the 20th ...
On Black Hammock Island, they have discovered remnants of the second-oldest pottery in the United States, dating to 2500 BCE. (There have been slightly older finds in the Savannah River area.) [3] They also have excavated more recent artifacts contemporary with the Mocama chiefdom. In the last 25 years, these Native American people have been ...
Hammock is a term used in the southeastern United States for stands of trees, usually hardwood, that form an ecological island in a contrasting ecosystem. Hammocks grow on elevated areas, often just a few inches high, surrounded by wetlands that are too wet to support them.