Letchworth Mounds

Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park is a 76.2 ha (188.2 acres) Florida state park in Jefferson County, Florida, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Monticello. It preserves the Letchworth-Love Mounds (8JE337), a Woodland period mound complex that includes the tallest known prehistoric Native American earthwork mound in Florida. This archaeological site was built and occupied primarily by the Swift Creek and Weeden Island cultures between roughly AD 200 and 900, with the primary mound-building phase occurring during the early Weeden Island period. Radiocarbon dates on a domestic structure excavated at the site place occupation in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. The archaeological site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2010. The park protects a mosaic of upland woodland and wetland communities that shelter several rare and imperiled plants and animals, and it is open to the public for activities such as hiking, birding, and wildlife viewing. The park lies within the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a nearly 18-million-acre statewide network of connected conservation lands and working landscapes established by the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act of 2021.