A historical timeline to the Loxahatchee River battle of the Second Seminole War in what is now Riverbend park west of Jupiter.
Circa 3,000 B.C.: Indigenous people first arrive in northeastern Palm Beach County, according to archaeological findings, in the area of the Loxahatchee River, derived from the Seminole word meaning “river of turtles,” for the waterway’s slow current. Their arrival comes 11,000 years after the first recorded humans, the Paleo-Indians, in what would be Florida. Among the tribes that would inhabit the region are the Calusa and Seminole.
1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in the Caribbean. A year later, Columbus returns on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere and this time his crew includes an aspiring explorer named Juan Ponce de Leon…