De Soto National Memorial has a rich cultural and natural history. Visit this page periodically to view images of the park as it is today.
John Moerk
De Soto National Memorial preserves a small portion of the mangrove swamp of the Florida Gulf Coast.
Did You Know?
The men of Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition to La Florida learned the hard way that Native American warriors could load and fire their long bows with deadly accuracy nearly a dozen times in the period required to load and fire the clumsy arquebus musket once. Visit De Soto National Memorial.
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