Sarasota County will spend about $1.3 million to purchase 105 feet of bayfront frontage with hurricane-damaged home north of Indian Mound Park.

Sarasota County will spend about $1.3 million to purchase 105 feet of bayfront frontage with hurricane-damaged home north of Indian Mound Park.

An Indian mound at Maximo Park in St. Petersburg is one of several in four city parks that are threatened by erosion, vandalism, artifact collectors and normal park use, such as foot traffic.

Wedged into Indian Mound Park, in a quiet area east of the Intracoastal Waterway, the oval-shaped, 100-foot-wide mound has long been considered an important historical site.

The Thursby site is the closest Volusia has to the great platform mounds of Florida’s west coast. Although smaller, the Thursby Mound was similar to the platform mounds.

The Indian Mound Yacht Club takes its name from the ancient middens nearby on the banks of Lake Monroe. Florida’s early tribes often left behind artifact-filled mounds, called middens, where ...

Indian Mound Park, a quiet oasis just east of the Intracoastal Waterway at Hibiscus Avenue and Southeast 13 th Street, is believed to contain the remains of some 100 Tequesta Indians.