Human Occupancy of Payne's Prairie Traditional Cache
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Human Occupancy of Payne's Prairie
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This cache was placed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of exploration & history in Florida on June 8th & 9th Viva Florida 500 at Paynes Prairie Preserve: Event GC48857 You are looking for a small container with some swag and a logbook.
Human Occupancy of Paynes Prairie The area around Paynes Prairie has been continuously occupied for 10-12,000 years. The area was first utilized approximately 11,000 years ago by Paleo-Indian nomadic hunters. The Cades Pond culture first permanently settled the area between 100 and 200 AD. Several Cades sites, including villages and mounds have been documented in the region. The Cades Pond people thrived in the area for the next 800 years, until other Native American cultures began to migrate to the area and eventually absorbed the remaining populations of the Cades Pond culture. Spanish explorers first visited the area in 1528 and began to build missions. In the late 1600s the largest cattle ranch in Spanish Florida was formed here and named La Chua. Two hundred years later the Seminole Indians occupied the area. The prairie is thought to be named after Seminole Chief named King Payne. During the Seminole period, William Bartram visited the Prairie, and called it the “Great Alachua Savannah” (1774), recording his observations in his journal, now published as “The Travels of William Bartram”. However, around the prairie several small battles were fought for the Second Seminole War. This war lasted from 1835-1842 and was the Indians’ retaliation for being forced to leave their home. In the 1900s, William Camp began cattle operations on the prairie, which lasted until the land was sold to the State to become Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, in 1970.
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