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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramView of diorama at the Dade Battlefield Historic State Park museum - Bushnell, Florida
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Collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 1, FF6
Subject Term
Parks--Florida--Sumter County--Bushnell
Public institutions--Florida--Sumter County--Bushnell
Museums--Florida--Sumter County--Bushnell
Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875
Seminole Indians--Wars
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
Dade Massacre, Fla, 1835
Museum exhibits
Diorama
Massacres
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Physical Description
General Note
Dade Battlefield Historic State Park was the site of the opening battle of the Second Seminole War on December 28, 1835. Angry over the American government's Indian removal policy, a group of 180 Seminole males attacked Major Francis Dade and his 103 soldiers marching from Fort Brook (Tampa) to Fort King (Ocala). Only three of the Americans survived. The event was for years known as Dade's Massacre. Starting in 1905, with Congressman Stephen Sparkman, attempts were made to preserve the site. Finally on September 29, 1921, at the urging of US Senator Duncan Fletcher, the state legislature purchased the site as a historic memorial. The 80-acre property was later transferred to the Florida Park Service as a state park. In 1972, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dade Battlefield Historic Memorial. It was also designated as a National Historic Landmark.
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