
THREE CULTURAL PERIODS REPRESENTED
Indigenous occupation reaches back 2,000 years, and across three distinct periods: Manasota, Weedon Island, and Safety Harbor Cultures

THE PRINE BURIAL MOUND
The Prine Mound has a history of disturbance. Many of the artifacts and bones were taken by potholers and grave robbers. What remained now resides in museums. Analysis o these remains by archaeologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists have given us a picture of what life was like in Florida 500 to 2500 years ago.

OTHER PARK NOTES
On August 12, 1970, this site was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is a Florida State Park managed facility.

FIT FOR A CHIEF
Being a temple mound, it was the home site of the chief and the seat of authority for one of the fifteen or twenty towns that made up the Tocobaga territory in Tampa Bay