The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve and MORE Scavenger Hunt!

This scavenger hunt highlights special places in your “backyard” – Jacksonville’s National Park, the Timucuan Preserve! Answer the questions from your worksheet (remember to answer in complete sentences when required), then visit the following web site and to check you answers: CLICK HERE to start your Backyard Journey! CLICK HERE to start your Backyard Journey!

History of Fort Caroline Step 1: Answer the questions on your worksheet labeled Fort Caroline National Memorial, then continue your journey discovering the nature (and history) in your backyard with the link below. After you enter the Fort Caroline National Memorial webpage, click on an explore each of these links: Timucua Indians A Footnote in Florida Explorers and settles of la Caroline Chronology of Ft. Caroline Enter: Fort Caroline National Memorial

Early exploration routes

Fort Caroline

Indians of Florida

Timucuan Indians and Early Settlers

Re-enactment at Fort Caroline

Quick Fact: Did you know the Theodore Roosevelt Area, a unit of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, contains nine distinct ecosystems; more than any other park in Jacksonville, Florida? Ecosystem

History of Kingsley Plantation During Florida’s plantation period ( ), Fort George Island was owned by many planters. The sites name comes from one of those owners, Zephaniah Kingsley. Kingsley family lived here from 1814 to Click on link and answer questions on your worksheet: Kingsley Plantation – Owner’s Home CLICK HERE and continue exploring your backyard

Quick Fact: Did you know that the Painted Buntings return to nest within the boundaries of the Timucuan Preserve each year in April?

Cedar Point CLICK HERE – continue your journey at Cedar Point

Quick Fact: Did you know the arquebus, a firearm used in the 15 th to 17 th centuries and carried by the French at Fort Caroline, weighs over 30 pounds?

Historic Mayport CLICK HERE for the journey from Historic Mayport...to present day Mayport Mayport, c. 1800s Railroad at Historic Mayport

Quick Fact: Did you know Fort Matanzas in St. Augustine, Florida is named for the slaughter of French Huguenots from Fort Caroline in 1565? In Spanish, "matanzas" means slaughters.

CLICK HERE for Huguenot Park

Quick Fact Did You Know that one of the Huguenot inhabitants of la Caroline had the surname of "DuVal”? Jacksonville, Florida, is within Duval County which is named for Florida's first civilian territorial governor, William Pope Duval, a Huguenot descendant.

Little Talbot Island Big Talbot Island Click to learn Click to learn about Little Talbot Island Click to learn Click to learn about Big Talbot Island

More Information Thanks to the National Park Service for websites that create opportunities to aid student research, reading and learning about national parks here in Jacksonville, Florida. Visit the Timucuan Preserve website: For more information about all of America’s National Parks, visit:

I would like to thank the National Park Service and the staff at the Timucuan Preserve, including Kingsley Plantation and Fort Caroline, for providing this educational experience to students and teachers! Teacher to Ranger to Teacher Mary P. Mott 2009