The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Three amateur historians believe they have discovered the exact site of a lost Seminole Indian War fort in the Florida Everglades, solving an approximately 170-year-old mystery lost to time and ...

After the United States acquired the Territory of Florida in the early 1820s, the government agents dealing with the Seminole decided they needed a single chief in order to negotiate treaties.

The direct cause of the Third Seminole War ... and Lt. J. C. Ives of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers published a 26-page "Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida ...

In 1947, a 5,600-acre tract of land was deeded to the state for preservation as Collier-Seminole State Park. According to floridastateparks.org, the park was originally created by Barron Gift ...

From “The Old Florida Trail,” a poem by Myrtle Hilliard Crow, author of Old Tales and Trails of Florida. An 1839 Army map shows a large lake, identified as L-247-4, midway between what today ...

The three men studied historic war maps, engineering surveys and aerial photos from the 1940s. They narrowed down the fort's possible location to a single clearing in the Big Cypress Preserve in ...

The site of Fort King, according to a 1937 report by the Florida Works Progress Administration, is the “most important of the military posts maintained during the war with the Seminoles.” ...