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As for the legend, not sure which legend you are referring to. I heard someone on these boards mention the Indian burial grounds, but the high hill on the south end of the island is not a burial ground at all, as far as I know. It is touted locally as a shell mound, and it is 50-60 feet high. I understand the Calusa Indians were fishermen and would not contaminate the sea with their refuse.

Florida is covered with "Shell Mounds" (indian garbage dumps, not "Burial Mounds"). Shellfish was a staple food of indians living near waterways. You can find them everywhere (except where early settlers excavated them for roadbed and foundation materials!)...

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except where early settlers excavated them for roadbed and foundation materials!)

My bad! Later "settlers" did far more shell mound destruction until the state started protecting the ones that they identified/ Obviously this is the case since bulldozers and draglines move shell far more efficiently!