Explore the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
August 25, 2016
Jacksonville’s Oldest National Park
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday serving as stewards of America’s national parks and engaging communities through recreation, conservation and historic preservation programs. Citizens are invited to celebrate this historic occasion by taking a day to get to know the national park that’s in their own backyards -- the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve.
The 46,000-acre preserve includes Fort Caroline National Memorial, the Theodore Roosevelt Area, Kingsley Plantation, Cedar Point, and thousands of acres of woods, water and salt marsh. Operated under a partnership agreement by the National Park Service, Florida State Park System, the City of Jacksonville, and more than 300 private and corporate landowners, it was created as a National Park unit in 1988 and is named for the Timucua, the native people who lived along the waterways in northeast Florida.
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