Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park

Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park is a 76.2 ha (188.2 acres) Florida state park in Jefferson County, Florida, about 9.7 kilometres (6 mi) west of Monticello. It preserves the Letchworth-Love Mounds (8JE337), a Woodland period mound complex on a low sandy rise near the southwestern shore of Lake Miccosukee. Its principal earthwork, Mound 1, stands about 15 metres (49 ft) tall and is the tallest surviving prehistoric Native American earthwork mound in Florida. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The complex was built and occupied chiefly by the Swift Creek and Weeden Island cultures between roughly AD 200 and 900, with most mound construction falling in the early Weeden Island period. At least seven mounds survive within the park, set around a central plaza with an adjoining habitation area; historical accounts describe as many as 28 mounds across the wider site. Excavations in the habitation area have uncovered a Woodland-period house whose radiocarbon dates place it in the fifth or sixth century AD. Lying near the geographic center of the Weeden Island culture area, Letchworth is distinctive among the culture's major ceremonial centers, most of which stand at its margins. The mound was described in print as early as 1931 and noted in 1939 by the historian Mark F. Boyd, who called it the "Miccosukee mound"; even so, the land rem

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