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Remembering Craig Morris

Posted on October 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

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In praise of Craig Morris, who passed away on September 22nd. Craig spent his career here at the 46,000 acre Timucuan Preserve. This place had called him. He’d never forgotten the vision. When he was a child, having just moved into a Fort Caroline subdivision, he went for a walk and saw “human bones by the hundreds eroding out of the bluff.” He honored them his whole life.

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Gilmore Settlement and Homes Built into Burial Mounds

Posted on December 13, 2017 | 1 comment

I try not to wince at the street sign that warns me this road’s a “dead end.” It dead-ends at Grant Mound.

https://jaxpsychogeo.com/east/gilmore-2-dead-end-at-grant-mound/

When UNF archaeologists and students were able to scan the Petherbridge site after bulldozing, they “found thousands of pieces of pottery, and pieces of human remains”.

French colonial artist Jacques Le Moyne called them “hermaphrodites.”

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Gilmore Cemetery and Settlement

Posted on December 3, 2017 | Leave a comment

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Irish immigrant Archibald Gilmore founded this settlement in 1885. The Gilmore train station stopped somewhere along today’s Gilmore Heights Road North.

Bill Hawley trudged through the dark wooded night in fear of the escaped convict. The Timucuans were here five millennia before all that.

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