Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial - History of Fort Caroline (U.S. National Park Service)

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	Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial History of Fort Caroline

Choose a link to learn more about the history of Fort Caroline:

Overview of history, French translation - L'histoire du fort

"Fort Caroline" - Students explore one of the first French settlements of the New World. (YouTube - you are leaving the NPS website.)


			Did You Know? The first translation of a Native American language into a European language – Timucuan to Spanish - occurred on lands within the Timucuan Preserve in the late 1500s. Fray Francisco Pareja did this translation at the Catholic mission of San Juan del Puerto on present day Ft. George Island. more...

Last Updated: July 19, 2009 at 09:33 EST