• Shore birds thrive in this coastal enviornment.

    Timucuan

    Ecological & Historic Preserve Florida

Where the Waters Meet

Visit one of the last unspoiled coastal wetlands on the Atlantic Coast. Discover 6,000 years of human history and experience the beauty of salt marshes, coastal dunes, and hardwood hammocks.

The Timucuan Preserve includes Fort Caroline and Kingsley Plantation.

Features

  • Living History

    Fort Caroline National Memorial

    Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.

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  • Witness Tree

    Discovery of a Slave Graveyard

    In 2010 the University of Florida archaeology field school found evidence of a graveyard near the slave quarters on Kingsley Plantation.

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  • A tabby slave cabin.

    Kingsley Plantation

    Explore life on a nineteenth-century Florida plantation.

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  • Egret on mudflat

    Theodore Roosevelt Area

    Experience miles of peaceful, wooded nature trails, vast grasslands supporting water and land animals, ancient piles of oyster shells and more.

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Did You Know?

Historic drawing of a Timucua man with his hair in a top know

Timucua warriors wore their hair in a top knot, which made them appear taller. Historic drawings of Timucua and French contact show the Timucua to be of greater stature than the French. More...