Last updated: August 27, 2021
Place
Seminole Rest Wayside, Lost Mounds
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For thousands of years the Timucuan Indians harvested millions of clams and oysters form Mosquito Lagoon. They left the shells behind and formed mounds like the one here at Seminole Rest. Over time most of the mounds were destroyed and their stories lost with them.Oak Hill Mound, also called Sam’s Mound, once occupied the spit of land to your right. In 1918 it was reported that 2000 railroad cars of shells were removed from the mound for road fill.
Quote from former resident, Jacqueline Snyder Stevens, “We always called it Sam’s Mound. They built the road out here for the railroad – just a little railroad- and they just cleared that mound. All the roads used to be shell. When they were taking down Sam’s Mound, I went down there often after I got out of school and I had quite a collection of pottery and stuff like that.”Please do not collect any artifacts from Seminole Rest property which are protected under the Archeological Resource Protection Act of 1985.
Quote from former resident, Jacqueline Snyder Stevens, “We always called it Sam’s Mound. They built the road out here for the railroad – just a little railroad- and they just cleared that mound. All the roads used to be shell. When they were taking down Sam’s Mound, I went down there often after I got out of school and I had quite a collection of pottery and stuff like that.”Please do not collect any artifacts from Seminole Rest property which are protected under the Archeological Resource Protection Act of 1985.