Tides at Guana Dam
GTM overview
- 76,760 acres
- 40 miles of coastal land
- 44 mammals
- 358 birds
- 41 reptiles
- 21 amphibians
- 303 fish
- 580 plants
- 61 known archaeological sites including a burial mound, shell middens, and Spanish colonial sites.
- 7 management partners: GTM, FWC, Flagler County, St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida State Parks, the Florida Forest Service and the National Park Service.
Home to some of the highest dunes in Florida at 30-40 feet.
Dates
- 4000 BC Oldest human remains. Inhabitants hunted and fished. Shell middens contain oysters, clams, conch, and coquina.
- 1500s Timucuans farmed corn, beans, peas, squash, and pumpkins.
- 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon claimed and named Florida for Spain.
- 1565 Pedro Menendez established St. Augustine.
- 1763 Treaty of Paris gave Florida to England.
- 1768 Governor Grant built indigo plantation.
- 1783 Treaty of Paris gave Florida back to Spain.
- 1784 Spaniards farmed rice, sugarcane, hogs, and cattle.
- 1821 Florida became a US territory.
- 1845 Florida became the 27th US state.
- 1920s Investors planned residential community; killed by the Great Depression.
- 1930s Investors harvested pine and leased land to Florida DNR as a Wildlife Management Area).
- 1957 Florida WMA built Guana Dam for waterfowl hunting.
- 1984 Florida DNR bought Guana from developers.
- 1999 Florida DEP (DNR) and NOAA established the GTM Research Reserve.
- 2001 Florida Senate removed public access to archaeological location data.
- 2025 Florida DEP almost gave 600 acres to developers.
Distances
- Google Map
- North Guana Outpost (10 mi)
- Tolomato River / ICW (1 mi)
- Mouth of Guana River (3 mi)
- St. Augustine Gun Club (3.7 mi)
- St. Augustine Inlet (8 mi)
- Castillo de San Marcos (8.7 mi)
- St. Augustine Lighthouse (10 mi)
Restaurants south
- Aunt Kate’s (5 mi)
- The Reef (5 mi)
- Cap’s (5 mi)
- Beaches (8 mi)
- Harry’s (11 mi)
- Casa Reina (11 mi)
Restaurants north
- Beach Diner (12 mi)
- Palm Valley Fish Camp (17 mi)
- Nona Blue (14 mi)
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