Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1920 — BUILT MANY CENTURIES AGO [ARTICLE]

BUILT MANY CENTURIES AGO

Florida's Shell Mounds Believed to Date Back to Before Beginning of Christian Era. Florida’s shell mounds, which are found In different portions of the state, are unquestionably of human construction, and were probably built ay some race of people who inhabited rhe country about the beginning of the Christian era. These mounds were found overgrown with ‘herbage and forest as long ago as when the first red man set foot in Florida, and the fact that the deposit of earth above 'them was sufficient to give place to the root of trees proved their great ige. There have been found in all these nounds pieces of pottery imbedded in the shell conglomerate, as well as articles made oi shell and bone, rude stone Implements and many bones of Bsh and animals,* such as deer, terrajin, rabbits, alligators and others. There are In the entire state about forty mounds, ■ the most Important of which are those of King Phillip’s town, tear the outlet of Lake Harney, which are 450 feet long, from 100 to 150 feet broad, and with an average might of eight feet Louisiana has 19 registered women statisticians, which exceeds the record >f any other state. A guest may be hs glad to go as the lost is to have him.