There is historic and Indian stuff on top of that, both.
There is glass and real old pottery from the Indians and
pieces of old dishware. I guess they call it the Padilla
homestead.
RC: Now, where was that?
E: Right inside of Pelican Bay.
RC: As you go in Pelican Bay?
E: It would be way up on the northern end. If you went in and
went north, almost back out to the pass, it is right in
there.
RC: That would be where the old quarantine station was. You know
where that was?
E: That is right in back of where I am talking about, to
the east of it. There are two shell ridges up there.
A lot of Indians lived on there, and it looks like a
lot of other people lived there right after the
Indians. There is some Seminole stuff there.
RC: Well, you know, in 1910 they buried a lot of people there.
E: The graveyard with the whelk shells stuck down in the ground
is right to the north of those shell ridges.
RC: The graveyard stuck in the ground?
E: That graveyard where they had the conch shells stuck in the
ground? Is that the one you are talking about, the Nelson
family graveyard?
RC: No, that is way up there. My father is buried in that one.
He has a tombstone there. That is way up there on the
middle of the island.
E: That is right. Your family goes way back out there.
RC: But what I am talking about is down there. The quarantine
station is on the north point of Cayo Costa and a dock going
out there. That was before it was at Boca Grande. You
would receive the load of phosphate over there.
E: Was the dock on the bay side or the gulf side?
RC: On the bay side. It had a breakwater there--two rows of
pilings with rock in between them. You could go around
there and get in that thing, and it was always calm, no
matter how rough it was on the outside. Of course, it was
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