• Shore birds thrive in this coastal enviornment.

    Timucuan

    Ecological & Historic Preserve Florida

Native Americans

Replica Timucuan hut at Fort Caroline

Explore the Timucuan hut at Fort Caroline.

Grace Curran/Park Volunteer

The Timucuan Preserve is named for the Timucua people, who were living in northeast Florida at the time of European arrival in the 16th century. Humans have lived in this area for 6,000 years.

Learn more about the Native American history of the Timucuan Preserve by choosing a link to the right.

  • The Timucua The Timucua

    The Timucua were living in northeast Florida at European contact. Read More

Did You Know?

Florida Territorial Governor William Pope Duval

One of the Huguenot inhabitants of la Caroline had the surname of "DuVal.”  Jacksonville, Florida, where the national memorial is located, is within Duval County which is named for Florida's first civilian
territorial governor, William Pope Duval, a Huguenot descendant. More...