Enlarged area: see legend below
 

Legend:

A: San Felasco Hammock -- Today a State Preserve. A large battle took place here on September 18, 1836 between the Indians and a large force of Florida Militia and Regular Army Troops.

B: Kanapaha Prairie -- An extension of Alachua (Paynes) prairie. Several bloody battles were fought in the area, including the Battle of Black Point on December 18, 1835; which was the first battle of the war when Florida Militia forces were attacked and driven off by Seminoles.

C: Alachua (Paynes) Prairie -- Today known as Paynes Prairie State Preserve. Some of the early Seminole in Florida moved into this area and had large villages with a large herds of livestock. Cattle have been raised here since the Spanish times.

D: Big Swamp -- There were a large number of Seminole villages here. Now underneath Ocala city streets and houses.

E: Cove of the Withlacoochee -- This was thought to be the hiding place of the main Seminole force in the beginning of the war. Four large campaigns under Generals Clinch, Gaines, Scott, and Call failed to locate and drive out the Indians.

F: Wahoo Swamp -- Major battle on November 21, 1836 with Seminoles and Black Seminoles fighting regular Army soldiers, state Militia and Creek Indian Volunteers. The Army forces suffered heavy casulties while the Seminoles fled.

1. Newnansville -- Largest Florida inland town in the 1830's.

2. Palatka -- Supply depot and major port on the St. Johns River.

3. Fort Fanning -- Crossing on the Suwannee River. Today known as Fanning Springs.

4. Fort Wacahoota -- Several bloody battles were fought in the area of this fort and along the road to Micanopy. Considered the bloodiest road in Florida.

5. Micanopy -- Town and Fort with the same name. Formerly site of Chief Micanopy's town and an early trading post. Osceola leads a major attack on Fort Defiance nearby on June 9, 1836.

6. Fort Drane -- General Clinch fortified his plantation and established this fort. Often under siege and attacked by Seminoles on April 20, 1836. When the fort was abandoned in the summer of 1836, Seminoles under Osceola's leadership took up residence and used the abandoned grain stores.

7. Payne's Landing -- Treaty made here between the Seminoles and United States in 1832. Later the Seminoles would claim that they did not have good interpreters and did not understand what they were signing.

8. Cedar Key -- Major supply depot established by General Taylor in 1839.

9. Fort King -- One of the most important forts in Florida from 1827 to 1844. Main Indian Agency from 1825 to 1845.  Today the City of Ocala.

10. Volusia -- Crossing on the St. Johns River. The settlement here dates back to a Spanish map of 1558.

11. Camp Izard -- Crossing on the Withlacoochee River where General Gaines and 1,200 men were trapped here and surrounded by Indians for over a week in early March 1836. Today part of the Greenway.

12. Dade's Battlefield -- Most costly battle to United States forces in Florida on December 28, 1835. Named after Major Dade, who was the first casualty. Of about 110 soldiers, only three survived: Privates Ransome Clarke, Joseph Sprague, and the black interpreter Louis Pacheco.

13. Fort Dade -- Crossing on the Withlacoochee River. Today Dade City. A cease fire agreement was made here between the Miccosukee and General Macomb, Commanding General of the Army, in May 1839.

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