the Florida Department of Environmental Protection... Acquisition and Restoration Council will be stopping by Manatee County for a public hearing on whether the state should help purchase three properties in Florida, including the mound... A group of residents living near the mound, a Native American activist and a local archaeologist have already said they will show up at the meeting Monday. The South Florida Museum decided to sell the 1-acre tract holding the mound because it didn't fit their educational mission. The land was donated to the museum. Since the sale became known, neighbors, preservationists, archaeologists and the Florida American...