DEERING ESTATE hosts ARCHAEOLOGY DAY in celebration of florida heritage month.
Maritime History of the Gulf Coast Lecture Series
The Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center will host a free public lecture series entitled “Maritime History of the Gulf Coast” throughout the month of February. Lectures will be held every Saturday in February, begining on February 6th, inside the Indian Temple Mound Museum Lazarus Education Center.
The programs will begin at noon and run until 1:00p.m. University of West Florida graduate students will deliver the lectures. The schedule of lectures in the series will be as follows:
Feb. 6th- Brian Mabelitini, “Confederate Defenses on the Apalachicola River, Florida: Neal’s Bluff Battery”
Feb. 13th- Dean Nones, “Pensacola’s Maritime Brick Industry from 1750 to 1900″
Feb. 20th- Sarah Linden, Materials of Conquest: Insights from the Metal Artifact Analysis of Three Early Spanish Expeditions
Feb. 27th- Wes Perrine, “The B-Street Schooner: Uncovering Pensacola’s 19th Century Lumber Industry and Maritime Landscape”
This lecture series is made possible through the partnership of Heritage Park, Florida Public Archaeology Network, and the University of West Florida. Heritage Park & Cultural Center is located at 139 Miracle Strip Parkway SE. For more information, contact Programming Coordinator Mike Thomin at (850) 833- 9595 or confirm through Facebook
The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center is a cultural services division of the City and is committed to providing area historical educational programming.