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La Mesa in Spanish means "the table", or alternately "the plateau", relating to its geography. [9] La Mesa was part of a larger tract, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, and was used by Spanish missionaries. [10] Through the years, the Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers valued La Mesa for its natural springs.
Marco Island in the 1960s. Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida.A number of Calusa artifacts were discovered on Key Marco (an island then adjacent, and since attached, to Marco Island) in 1896 by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing as part of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition.
The Glades culture is an archaeological culture in southernmost Florida that lasted from about 500 BCE until shortly after European contact. Its area included the Everglades, the Florida Keys, the Atlantic coast of Florida north through present-day Martin County and the Gulf coast north to Marco Island in Collier County.
The City of Marco Island released updated information for residents following Hurricane Ian on Friday morning.
Horr's Island is a significant Archaic period archaeological site located on an island in Southwest Florida formerly known as Horr's Island. Horr's Island (now called Key Marco, not to be confused with the archaeological site Key Marco) is on the south side of Marco Island in Collier County, Florida. The site includes four mounds and a shell ring.
La Mesa Motel, a demolished historic motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico; La Mesa Park, a defunct horse racing track in Raton, New Mexico; Other countries.
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The Picosa culture encapsulates the Archaic lifestyles of people from three locations with interconnected artifacts and lifestyles. It was named by Cynthia Irwin-Williams in the 1960s for those areas: Pinto Basin (PI), Cochise tradition (CO) and San Pedro (SA), which all together is "Picosa".