Event Details

Coquina: Florida's Pet Rock

Time: 10:00 am til 11:00 am

Location: Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 N Beach St, Ormond Beach

Description: Coquina is a conglomerate rock unique to Florida’s east coast. Since the 1590s when the Spanish first established quarries, coquina was used to build every type of structure from the historic period: forts, plantations, sugar mills, houses, businesses, even cemeteries. Drawing from resources developed for the Coquina Queries teacher activity guide, this talk introduces participants to the sweeping array of coquina ruins they can visit in northeast Florida, including formation, excavation, and preservation.

This lecture is for the Ormond Beach Historical Society. It is free and open to the public.

FPAN is co-hosting this event.

AIA Lecture: The Recovery of the La Belle

Time: 12:00 pm til 1:00 pm

Location: UNF Archaeology Lab

Description: In 1684 famous French explorer La Salle left France with plans to establish a colony at the Mississippi River but got lost on the way. Instead, he landed the colonists on the Texas coast between Galveston and Corpus Christi at a settlement called Fort St. Louis. His ship the La Belle sank in 1686 and was lost until the Texas Historical Commission began searching for the ship in 1995. The story of the ship's location and excavation in Matagorda Bay, its conservation at Texas A & M's Conservation Research Laboratory, and its reconstruction in Austin's Bullock Museum is the subject of Peter Fix's lecture. As the conservator and head of reconstruction , Fix knows every piece of the puzzle after working on it for around 20 years. It is a story of dedication and hard work by many archaeologists and workers in related fields with a rare complete ending--a reconstructed historic ship.

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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.