Indian Mound Adventure on The Hillsborough River

Exploring along the scenic Hillsborough River and the surrounding wilderness. The area today is part of Lower Hillsborough Wilderness Preserve. The river and surrounding wilderness have many layers of history that span thousands of years. Along the way I discover an ancient Native American Indian mound, one of many that can be seen along the river. It's a reminder of the past and how the natives built these areas up above the surrounding floodplain. They hunted, camped and traveled through these areas. Utilizing the limestone on around the mound to help make tools and weapons. The mounds were used for various purposes over the centuries and offered great vantage points along the river helping to identity a tribes territory as well. The area in more recent times in the 1800's and early 1900's was used for logging activity and many old Cypress Trees were cut down and logged out of this area. I could see lots of wildlife by the river including snakes, alligators and birds just to name a few. It's so peaceful out here roaming by the river it's nice to explore here and come across sites from the past. Enjoy the adventure and thank you!
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Preserve: www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/recreation/lower-hillsborough-wilderness-preserve
History: hillsborough-river-connection.org/about/history/ and www4.swfwmd.state.fl.us/hill/human_history
Hillsborough River: www4.swfwmd.state.fl.us/hill/
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[@cheribrodeur9928]

I love seeing old Florida with you from the comfort of my arm chair. I turned 75 yesterday so I am passed doing this myself. As an old Florida girl I still get to travel the woods ! Thank uou!

[@user-qb8yr4vb4u]

Great content as always

[@FLtrailblazer]

Appreciate it!

[@griffice1]

I've canoed thru there many times back in the 80's. Great video.

[@albert8582]

Great videos, so great to see a video that I am not getting yielded at lol

[@Getdownorlaydownbum]

Did you keep the tool that was a cool find

[@NCEEINC]

I visited this site many times during my paddling trips on the river. I am not convinced that this is an Indian mound. The shallowness of the river at this point and the lack of any artifacts on the mounds leads evidence to the theory the mounds are material dredged from the river bottom to accommodate the logging in the area. Having grownup in this area and talked to a number of old timers, I haven't found any data to support either origin for the mounds. It is obvious it has been well dug up by people searching for artifacts.

[@berthaday3473]

Can anyone identify that snake @ very beginning of the video?