Summary:
Stories about an ancient Timucuan town called Ossachite buried beneath the streets of Downtown Jacksonville abound online, but did it actually exist? And does this romantic narrative of a lost city actually obscure the far more interesting indigenous history of Northeast Florida?
Bibliography:
“Introducing the Shields Mound and the Mill Cove Complex” by Keith Ashley, at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304497289
“Mill Cove Complex: A Truly Significant Site” by Keith Ashley in Florida Archaeology Magazine, 2018, at https://myfloridahistory.org/fhsai/magazine/2018
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“The Florida of the Inca by Graciloso de la Vega (translated by John Grier Varner and Jeannette Varner),” 2010 (available at Jacksonville Public Library)
“Jaxlore: The lost city of Ossachite” by Bill Delaney, 2023, at https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/jaxlore-the-lost-city-of-ossachite/
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Image Credit:
“Scheeps togt van Iamaica gedaan na Panuco en Rio de las Palmas, aan de Golf van Mexico gelegen” by Pieter van der Aa, 1706, at https://cdm16025.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16025coll9/id/25/rec/1
Voice actors (in order of appearance):
- Frederick Davis, author of “History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity 1513 to 1924”: Jackson Harpe
- Garcilaso De La Vega, a Spanish soldier and poet: Sky Lebron
- Clarence B. Moore, an American archaeologist: Chris Copeland
