Each year an estimated 7,500 Indians traveled to the Crystal River site to bury their dead and exchange ritual objects. These were Citrus County's first tourists.
Visitors can take a trial through burial and temple mounds and shell middens.
It is located one mile west of US 19, two miles north of Crystal River, on North Museum Point. The next visitors were Spanish Conquistadors on their quest for gold. Hernando de Soto trekked through Indian territory in what is now Citrus County, in the summer of 1539. He is through the Floral City area, along the banks of Lake Tsala Apopka past Inverness and Hernando, the city that bears his name. The Timucuan Indians DeSoto encountered were virtually eliminated by 1710, victims of white man's diseases and other misfortunes, thus paving the way for the Seminoles.