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The Hare family lived on the lake, hence the name. But on the first maps of Sebring (1912), Lake Hare had been changed to Lake Jackson. No one knows for sure why the name Lake Jackson was chosen, but it is widely believed that it was intended to honor the man who surveyed the area in the 1850s. According to historian Allen Altvater, “a rather ...
The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). [2] [3] [4] This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting ...
Oct 29, 2016 · Regarding Lake Jackson. The lake is named after Andrew Jackson. The marker is located a little more than 3,000 feet north of the Alabama/Florida state line. Also see . . . The First Seminole War of 1817-1818 (Florida, Georgia and Alabama). From Explore Southern History. (Submitted on October 30, 2016, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.)
Lake Jackson sits in a unique environment brought about by the "carbonate units" that formed long ago beneath Florida's land. This Limestone-ridden bedrock environment is known as Karst Topography, and it explains the nature of Lake Jackson's formation and its habits. Limestone is extremely susecptible to effervescence, or dissolution, by acids.
Mar 26, 2019 · A Name Blooms. It was Easter Sunday when Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon laid eyes on a lush and thriving land. The explorer’s homeland of Spain was celebrating Pascua Florida, the feast of flowers, as he claimed the newly found territory on April 2nd. In honor of the Eastertime tradition, Ponce de Leon named the region “Florida ...
The park is located. 27 North in Tallahassee. Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park preserves the site of an important prehistoric civilization that once occupied the site of Tallahassee, Florida. The mounds date from the Mississippian era and include a massive "temple mound."
Jul 7, 2023 · The village at the base of these mounds was a cultural, religious and population center in 1100-1500 AD. Lake Jackson contains signs of Florida’s Territorial Period and early statehood (1825-1860) when the land was part of a large estate owned by Colonel Robert Butler.
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