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Special thanks to:

Jeana Brunson, Director, Museum of Florida History
Current and former members of the Volusia County Historic Preservation Advisory Board
Dana Ste. Claire, Author and past Curator of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona.
Division of Historical Resources
Dr. John Hann, Director, Mission San Luis Archaeological Site at Tallahassee
Dr. Jerald Milanich, Curator of the Florida Natural History Museum at Gainesville
Dr. Jim Miller, Chief of the Bureau of Archaeological Research, Florida Division of Historical Resources
Main Street DeLand Association
Motor racing Heritage Association
Steve Oakley, Curator of Exhibits, Museum of Florida History
Volusia County Department of Leisure Services
Volusia County Community Information
Volusia County Growth and Resource Management

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Images, Illustrations, and Photographs

• Artist’s conception depicting village life along the St. John’s River near Hontoon Island at the time of contact with the Europeans courtesy of the Museum of Florida History, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State.
• Sketches of Timucuan Indians and activities (from engravings by Theodore de Bry) contributed by Division of Leisure Services, Volusia County.
• Sketches of shell and tool artifacts from Volusia County archaeological sites contributed by Ryan Wheeler and Ray McGee, The Florida Anthropologist, Vol. 53, Numbers 2-3, June-September 2000.
• Photos of Volusia County shell mound sites courtesy of Dr. Jerald Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville
• Artist’s conception of Mayaca Indians observing an approaching Spanish vessel drawn by artist Victoria Bortolussi of New Smyrna Beach.
• Image gallery photographs attained from the Florida Memory Project, Florida Department of State Division of Library & Information Services, Bureau of Archives & Records Management.

Additional resources

• Barrientos, Bartolome 1567 Pedro Menendez De Aviles, founder of Florida. Trans. By Anthony Kerrigan. Gainesville: University of Florida Press 
• Hann, John H. 1996 A history of the Timucua Indians and missions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 
• Hann, Historical era aboriginal peoples of south Florida.  
• Hann, John H. 1993 "The Mayaca and Jororo and missions to them." in Bonnie McEwan ed. The Spanish missions of La Florida Gainesville: University Press of Florida 
• Milanich, Jerald T. 1995 Florida Indians and the invasion from Europe. Gainesville, Fla: University Press of Florida 
• Milanich, Jerald T. 1998 Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 
• Milanich, Jerald T. 1972  Francisco Pareja’s 1613 Confessionario: A documentary source for Timucuan ethnography. Division of Archives, History, and Records Management, Florida Department of State
• Ste. Claire, Dana. 1992 True Natives: The Prehistory of Volusia County. Daytona Beach, Fla: The Museum of Arts and Sciences 
• Wyman, Jeffries. 1868 An account of the fresh-water shell-heaps of the St. Johns River, East Florida. Salem, Ma: Essex Institute Press
  General Information courtesy of the University Press of Florida.

Related Links

http://www.flheritage.com/contents.html
(Fla. Division of Historical Resources)

http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/bar
(Fla. Bureau of Archaeological Research) 

http://www.flahum.org
forum-winter-2001/more_information.html (Fla. Humanities Council - More information about Florida Archaeology)

http://www.dhr.dos.state.ffl.us/bar/san_luis
(What's New at Mission San Luis, Tallahassee) Views of a reconstructed Appalachee council house

http://www.upf.com
University Press of Florida

 

 

 

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