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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial Living history demonstration at Fort Caroline including Civil War cannon.
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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
Events at Fort Caroline

Upcoming Programs

Sixteenth Century Living History Weekend:  

Florida's First French Colony

December 10-11, 2011

History comes to life at Fort Caroline National Memorial Saturday December 10th from 9am-9pm and Sunday the 11th from 9am-3pm. Take a journey back in time to the 1500s when a group of French settlers sailed over 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the north Florida coast. Visitors can see and experience life as it was for this group of French settlers when they arrived in Florida in 1564.   

For more information, call 904.641.7155.

For directions, click here.

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Florida Territorial Governor William Pope Duval

Did You Know?
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.
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Last Updated: November 09, 2011 at 07:51 MST