"BTW, the Fort Caroline National Historical Park was established in 1966 on land given to the park service for the establishment of the park. There was nothing there that actually drew the park service."
You got that right. Here's some gasoline for the fire ...
William Bartram visited the actual site of Fort Caroline in Georgia -- Examiner.com ( 2013-11-21 )
There is quite a backstory here with local and national politics spanning from Jacksonville up to DC with FDR and the New Deal.
These two latest researchers may or may not be correct, but everyone should keep a skeptical but open mind. According to that linked article it appears that skepticism was in very short supply 70+ years ago. BR
Having read, in fact studied Three Voyages, the various other facts like the march times from the Spanish landings seem to favor a site further south than the northern islands in the chain.
But there is in fact something there, while there is nothing on the river of May.
While visiting the park I learned that there two brothers that owned the large tracts of a plantation located on both sides of the river. The last one to die wanted it ti be a park, a preserve.
In spite the congressman’s translation may be a little biased, it is remarkable in being an unique English language look into the 16 th century efforts to come to America.