Finding Objects from the Ice Age
Learn about Florida’s history through the artifacts and objects found at our state parks. The fossil shell of a giant land tortoise is a highly prized artifact at Highlands Hammock State Park. The fossilized shell is on permanent display in the Hammock Inn, where it wows visitors with measurements of nearly 3-feet by 4-feet by 5-feet. Individual plates in the shell measure 5-inches in diameter. The discovery of the tortoise is a remarkable story. In 1933, while work crews were excavating a ditch for laying a pipe through the orange grove near the entrance of the hammock, they uncovered ...
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