Archaeologists make remarkable discovery while searching for Civil War battlefield in Florida

Archaeologists make remarkable discovery while searching for Civil War battlefield in Florida

Beneath present-day Hard Labor Church in Chipley, researchers found a lost 17th-century Spanish mission while looking into a different part of Florida's past. They had been trying to identify a Civil War battlefield when signs of the long-missing Mission of San Carlos emerged instead. What happened? According to MyPanhandle, historians placed the mission at about 1674 or 1675 — roughly 100 years before the Declaration of Independence and nearly …