Fort Caroline National Memorial (FL)
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Fort Caroline National Memorial Map
Fort Caroline National Memorial, with major sites from the album highlighted, as depicted a la Google Earth...
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve Visitor Center
The visitor center center located adjacent to the fort serves as the main center for the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, a 46,000 acre preserve of which the Fort is only a small part...
Fort Caroline National Memorial
It seemed almost every tree here was draped in a thick blanket of spanish moss...
The visitor center had a fascinating collection of artifacts...fascinating due to the fact that they come from such an unfamiliar era to me...
The fort itself is a short walk through the woods from the visitor center...
Fort Caroline National Memorial
Spanish moss seemed to be almost dripping down from the massive arms of this overhanging live oak...
On the way to the fort the trail passes a reconstruction of a small native hut representative of what would have been found in the region at the time of the forts existence...
Approaching Fort de la Caroline...
Shaped like a triangle, the main arched entrance to the fort is along the fort's earthen, southeastern, wall...
The reconstructed fort has been built based upon a sketch of Fort de la Caroline from the period...
The high arched gateway to the fort...
A replica period cannon guards the approaches to the entrance of the fort...
The French Fleur-de-Lis flies above the fort's other landward wall. The shallow moat surrounding the fort can also be seen...
Grassy berms allow access to the fort's three bastions, where cannon would have been placed...
The seaward wall of the fort was wooden, for reasons unexplained to me. I kind of gave the fort an unfinished feeling...
