and their city was named in Anhaica.

On Friday, September the 6th, the Tallahassee Historical Society and its partners at.

Past the Panhandle Archeological Society of Tallahassee, will be unveiling a historical marker here in Myers Park to Anhaica, which was the Apalachee native village, which spread all up and down this hillside and beyond behind me.

In 1539 and was waiting here for the Spanish, under Hernando de Soto when they got here.

It's estimated that the Apalachee had lived in the area since approximately 1000 or 1500 A.D. at one point, they built ceremonial mounds next to Lake Jackson in today's northwest part of the city.

Eventually, as many as 60,000 Apalachee lived in the land between the Aucilla and the Ochlocknee Rivers.

Almost immediately, De Soto and his 600 plus men clashed with the natives while the Appalachee were strong.

DeSoto temporarily forced them from their homes, taking some as captives.

One of the, consequences of what we call contact, here, the contact between European Americans and Native Americans, was a disaster for the Native American cultures, particularly through the spread of pathogens and disease.

And also all sorts of things that just wiped out, just wiped out, a large number of the Native American cultures, the number of Apalachee dwindled over the years.

By the late 18th century, many had merged with other tribes like the lower Muskogee Creek and the Seminoles.

As part of our bicentennial project, the Historical Society agreed, to produce and unveil ten historical markers.

And because this is such a culturally diverse area, we wanted to to make sure that all the cultures were represented.

This is one of three Native American markers that we will be that we will be putting up.

One of them is out is the vel, the mound site, which most people know.

Another one is what we call it, another one.

Be down, be near the Alfred Greenway, down near Lake Lafayette, and so forth.

And so, we think this is a duty and a responsibility that everybody be represented.