Fort Caroline National Memorial – elusive original fort location

Fort Caroline National Memorial commemorates the 1564 French Huguenot colony established near the mouth of the St. Johns River. While the memorial park at this address interprets the French presence, the precise location and physical remains of the original 1564 fort are debated among historians and archaeologists, making the site's exact archaeological footprint hard to find. Excavations in the region have produced evidence but no universally agreed single excavation point identified as the fort itself.