SW070 GARI Excavations Under the now-Reconstructed Fort King Reveal Daily 1830s' Life

From the port at Fort Brooke in Tampa, the Fort King Road stretched 100 miles north to Fort King itself, near present-day Ocala. That fort skirted edge of the Seminole Indians' Central Florida reservation. Why was it built there? What was its purpose? How important was Fort King's role to the Second Seminole War? What survives of the fort today?  Sean Norman, acting director of GARI, Gulf Archaeological Research Institute, returns to answer these questions and to examine the quality of the reconstructed Fort King, what will be done with the blacksmith shop, how the community has partnered well with Fort King to ensure orderly and organized archaeological digs are well funded and supported, and what GARI's survey revealed and enabled about Fort King.   Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. He is a combat veteran and of the U.S. Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo, and at the Pentagon after 9/11. A military historian, he holds masters degrees in Public History, Communication, and Homeland Security, and is a graduate of the US Army War College with an advanced degree in strategic studies. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Florida.  Subscribe automatically to the Seminole Wars through your favorite podcast provider, such as iHeart or Stitcher or Spotify, DoubleTwist, or Pandora or Google podcasts or iTunes, or ... Check it out so you always get the latest episode without delay where and when you want it. Like us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube!