Cape Canaveral Center Street Park

Cape Canaveral Center Street Park

This park is home to the Carter Fuller Mound which is a complex of six burial mounds that occupied this location. They were built by the ancestors of the prehistoric Ais tribe, a group who occupied the Cape Canaveral area at the time of European contact. Based on pottery styles and the presence of European materials discovered here, the age of these mounds range from AD 600 to the 16th century. In the 1930s, Dr. George Woodbury, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institute’s Bureau of Ethnology and the Peabody Museum, initiated a series of archaeological investigations into several American Indian mound sites near here. With the help of local laborers provided by the New Deal’s Civil Works Administration, excavations on the properties belonging to the Carter and Fuller families revealed the remains of more than 100 individuals that included men, women, and children. The oldest identified mound in this complex contained a central burial pit containing the disarticulated remains of an estimated 20 individuals. Two intact burials were discovered near the opening of the pit. The remains of another 89 individuals, including those of twelve children, were recovered from one of the more recent mounds. Unlike those of the older mound, all of these skeletons were buried intact and were arranged in a circular pattern with their heads pointing towards the apex of the mound. The diversity of these burial patterns indicates that this community experienced a significant cultural shift over the centuries that they resided in Cape Canaveral. In addition to the burials, dozens of ornamental and utilitarian artifacts made of bone, shell, and stone were recovered. Many of these items are still housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. and the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts
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Blue sign that reads "City of Cape Canaveral Center Street Park. For your pleasure and relaxation please no animals, alcoholic beverages, or bonfires. Keep our parks clean. Park hours 7 am-9 pm." The sign features a photo of two manatees on the left and a photo of a tree on the water on the right.

Mags Mullican

Mags Mullican

City of Cape Canaveral

08/12/2021

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