 |
||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The skeletons, when excavated, were left in the exact positions they were found, and a building similar to an early Indian settlement was constructed over them. Totaling over 100, the remains were on exhibit in The Fountain of Youth National Archaeological Park until 1991, when the Timucua Indian Nation asked for the bones to be reburied. Archeologists have excavated Fountain Of Youth Park and have found many Indian artifacts in the area. Some pre-date Ponce De Leon’s arrival by more than a thousand years. The park is the site where Spanish conquistadors first came ashore in what is now the continental United States. The Ponce de Leon expedition sighted land in the present locality of St. Augustine and named it La Florida. |
|
