Mount Taylor (Florida)

For other uses of "Mount Taylor", see Mount Taylor (disambiguation).
Mount Taylor
Mount Taylor (Florida) is located in Volusia County
Mount Taylor (Florida)
LocationVolusia County, Florida
Nearest cityDeBary
Coordinates28°53′N 81°19′W / 28.88°N 81.31°W / 28.88; -81.31
Builtapprox. 4,000 B.C. – 2,000 B.C.
NRHP reference No.97001219[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 8, 1997

Mount Taylor (8VO19)is an archaeological site near DeBary, Florida. It is the eponym for the Mount Taylor period, a pre-ceramic archaeological culture that flourished in the middle and upper St. Johns River valley and, to a lesser extent, along the middle and upper Atlantic Coast of Florida, from about 6,000 years Before Present (BP) to about 4,000 years BP (4000 BCE to 2000 BCE).[2][3] On October 8, 1997, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Wheeler, et al.: 132, 142-43
  3. ^ Everglades Agricultural Area, Storage Reservoirs Project Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine - pdf file