Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park & Lake Miccosukee
Jefferson County, FL 11.12.’22

Letchworth-Love, south of Lake Miccosukee, is an archaeological site featuring the tallest prehistoric Native American ceremonial earthwork in the state of Florida. It is thought to be a religious ceremonial site of the pre-Columbian Swift Creek culture.

The banks of Lake Miccosukee and the surrounding area were once home to the Miccosukee people, prior to the advent of the Florida Seminole Wars (1816-1858). Aggression and conflict pressed the Miccosukee (Mikasuki) further into the peninsula, along with neighboring Muscogee-speaking tribes of the panhandle. Together, they formed the Seminole confederation that defied further U.S. Federal encroachment into central and southern Florida. After a series of deportations of Indians to reservation in the Oklahoma Territory, an eventual deal would be struck between the belligerents, allowing tribal existence to remain in southern Florida. For this reason, the Seminole claim to be ‘unconquered.‘ The Miccosukee of today reside in Broward and Collier Counties.

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