Lost Mounds

Lost Mounds. Seminole Rest Historic Site. , For thousands of years the Timucuan Indians harvested millions of claims and oysters from Mosquito Lagoon. They left the shells behind and formed mounds like the one here at Seminole Rest. Over time most of the mounds were destroyed and their stories with them., Oak Hill Mound, also called Sam’s Mound, once occupied the spit of land to your right. In 1918 it was reported that 2000 railroad cars of shells were removed from the Mound for road fill., We always called it Sam’s Mound. They built the road out here for the railroad, just a little railroad, and they just cleared that mound. All the roads used to be shell. When they were taking down Sam’s Mound, I went down there often after I got out of school and I had quite a collection of pottery and stuff like that. , Jacqueline Snyder Stevens, former resident, (caption) , Seminole Rest is one of the few Indian shell mounds that remain along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Today Seminole Rest is being preserved by the National Park Service and remains a valuable link to the Timucuans’ story.