Biscayne Boulevard Historic District

Showcase of Miami Modernist Architecture style, contains numerous significant buildings of this style built in the 1950ies – 1960ies.

Turtle Mound

The tallest shell midden mound in the United States. Now it is 15 m high, but before the shellrock mining – 23 m high.

Mud Lake Canal

Large scale prehistoric structure – artificially made canal for canoes to simplify yearly migrations – to avoid rough waters of Mexico Gulf. Canal is 6.3 km long.

Miami Circle

A circle formed by 24 postholes, made sometimes around 0 – 300 AD. Diameter of this perfect circle is 11.5 m. Postholes are cut in limestone bedrock – a unique feature of Pre-Columbian structures in Florida. Most likely these are remnants of structure built by Tequesta culture and are located in their ancient capital.

Letchworth-Love Mounds

The tallest prehistoric mound in Florida – 14 m high. Built sometimes around 200 – 900 AD, most likely by Weedon Island Culture.

Horr’s Island archaeological site

One of the oldest settlements and mound burials in this part of the United States. Permanently occupied sometimes around 8000 – 1000 BC, when it was the largest settlement in the area of the south-eastern United States. In one mound the burials were made approximately at 3,400 BC.

Green Mound

One of the largest Pre-Columbian shell midden (waste) mounds in the United States. Once it was 15 m high, now some 12 m high, built approximately in 800 AD.

Crystal River Rock Art

Three large upright boulders with petroglyphs. These carved images resemble humans. Possible time of creation: 100 BC. Nearby are burial mounds, platforms.

Thomas Farm Site

One of the richest finds of Miocene (18 million years ago) land animal fossils in the world. Here have been found remnants of rhinoceroses, three species of horses, camels, dogs, and many other extinct animals, in total – more than 100 species.

Page-Ladson prehistory site

Rich find of prehistoric fossils of animals and artifacts left by people 12,500 – 10,500 BC. Here were found bones of animals living at the time when people were already here – elephants, mastodons, mammoths, horses, ground sloths. Chop marks on bones show that people hunted mastodons and other animals.