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| Artifacts - Florahome, FL |
The Native American 'Indians' now known as the the Timucua were the original inhabitants of the Florahome, Florida area and lived in a region extending from Southeast Georgia to Northeast and North Central Florida. Evidence of the Timucua recovered from the Florahome area include pottery artifacts as well as a dugout canoe now featured in the new
“Dugout Canoes: Paddling Through the Americas,” exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Sadly, from their first encounter with Europeans in 1513, the Timucua as a people were doomed to extinction succombing to disease, wars and enslavement. According to Wikipedia, there were no more than five left when Florida was acquired in 1821.
Wikipedia is probably the best resource on the web for an overall account of the history and culture of the Timucua. Other places to visit either on the web or in person to learn more about the Timucua, are the
Florida Living History website, the
Old Florida Museum in St. Augustine, the
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, and of course the
Florida Museum of Natural History has many more artifacts and is a great place to explore Florida's past.
For a more in depth study of the Timucua, you might also like to read
The Timucua (Peoples of America) 
by Jerald T. Milanich or the Ripley P. Bullen two book series,
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida
and
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida Volume II. Florida resident,
Fredric Hitt has also written 3 fictional accounts of the Timucua beginning with
Wekiva Winter
, followed by
Beyond the River of the Sun
and
The Last Timucuan.
There is also a book for younger readers -
The Timucua Indians - A Native American Detective Story 
for ages 9-12.
NEW from Florahome USA
For more on Native American Indians in Florida, you can read Florahome USA's second post on the subject -
William Bartram - The Florida Indians
Also on Florahome USA:
The Florahome, Florida History Page
