Every day, thousands of people cross a nondescript bridge on U.S. 1 south of St. Augustine over Moultrie Creek. But not many know the rich history of the creek that runs west into the Intracoastal Waterway.
The creek, named after Gen. John Moultrie, the English governor of Florida in 1777, is the site of statewide historical events and was once a thriving community.
Treaty of Moultrie Creek
On Sept. 18, 1823, two years after Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States, territorial Gov. William Duval and government representative James Gadsden met with the Seminole tribe leaders on the banks of the creek to sign a peace treaty ending the First Seminole War.
The document called the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, relocated the Seminole to a 4 million-acre reservation in central Florida in exchange for them giving up claims to all other lands in the state.
St. Johns County's Treaty Park, on Wildwood Drive, commemorates the signing and is near the event's location.
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