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Temporary Travel Office :: Proposed Addendum to the observation
platform at Round Marsh within the Theodore Roosevelt Area of the
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Guanabacoa Trail

The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is located near the
intersection of the US Intracoastal Waterway and the mouth of the St.
Johns River in Jacksonville Florida. Other than existing on classic
Florida wetlands, the preserve also occupies the site of first contact
between indiginous peoples and European colonists in what is now North
America. Monuments to the French expeditions of Rene Laudonnier (who
established Fort Caroline) and Jean Ribault are primary attractions for
park visitors.

The Temporary Travel Office is proposing an addition to the current
Observation Tower within the preserve that offers hikers a panoramic
view of Round Marsh. The addition would consist of a 498mi/801km
boardwalk that would span from the preserve in Jacksonville, FL to
Guanabacoa, Cuba. Signage would explain the significance of the
expansion to the site (below) and audio tours would be commissioned by
anthropologists, artists, amateur historians and human rights advocates
to accompany hikers on the long walk.

Roosevelt Area of Jacksonville's Timucuan Ecological and Historic
Preserve:
The last known Timucuan, Juan Alonso Cavale, was born in 1709 at
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Lecha in what would become the State of
Florida. After devastating attacks by British supported Yamasee Indians
on the Spanish supply route known as the Camino Real, the Spanish
eventually ceded Florida to the British, evacuating their St. Augustine
stronghold. They took the estimated 89 surviving missionized Indians
with them to Guanabacoa, Cuba where Juan Alonso Cavale would die in
1767.

Guanabacoa, Cuba:
Guanabacoa, now a suburb of Havana, Cuba played an important role in
the historical narrative of slavery in the "New World." Once the site
of forced reservation camps for indigenous peoples, Guanabacoa would
become a haven for escaped slaves from the United States. Here, a small
stretch of the US 1 highway running through Jacksonville, Florida is
reconstructed on the site of a former reservation. The actual stretch
of road is now named for Johnnie Mae Chappell, an African-American
woman who was gunned down as she walked along the road on March 23,
1964. Several miles away in downtown Jacksonville, protests against the
inequities of racial segregation turned violent as whites fought the
advances of civil rights.
Images of the proposal (as exhibited at Seesaw Space in Jacksonville,
FL in December) and a trail map available at:
http://temporarytraveloffice.net/jax/jax.html


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