Photo by TuffyDog.com
This is the foundation of the old airport tower right next to the American Indian kitchen midden. 
History Florida's first inhabitants entered a cool, dry Florida as early as 14,000 years ago. As the climate changed to warm and moist, sea levels rose and coastal conditions developed. Nomadic archaic populations began to settle about 5,000 years ago along the rich estuaries and coastal resources in the central Gulf coast area and became the Manasota cultures. Some 1,800 years ago these sedentary people began to create social structure, ceremonialism, and sophisticated artistic pottery, evolving into the Weeden Island culture lasting some 800 years. Through time the society again changed to eventually become the native population that met the first Europeans. These native peoples were decimated by disease, warfare, and social disintegration brought about by contact with the Spanish.
In the mid 1700s, the Creek Indians entered Florida
from Alabama and Georgia and eventually became known as the Seminoles. After
the Civil War, Weedon Island became the homestead of early settlers and by the
1900s entered a colorful modern history of airports, speakeasies, and Hollywood
movies.
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