I never knew the name of this village, but recall seeing it on the banks of the Miami river in the early 60's. Hundreds of years before Christopher columbus discovered the New World, the Tequesta Indians lived along the banks of the Miami River.

During the more than two centuries that Florida was controlled by Spain, the Tequestans and other Prehistoric Indians of Florida were decimated by European diseases and warfare. The lands they vacated attracted people from several of the Creek tribes in Georgia and Alabama who had entered Florida in the early 1700's. They joined ranks and later became known as Seminoles, and during the nineteenth century they would engage in a series of bloody wars against the United States partly to defend their right to live in Florida. After the conclusion of the Third Seminole War in 1858, the few hundred Indians remaining in the state lived in the Everglades.

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