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The Koreshan State Historic Site is a state park in Estero, Florida located on U.S. Highway 41 at Corkscrew Road. It was also added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1976, under the designation of Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District .
The main house was a WWII bunker, used for overnight camping. Among the camp activities in the 1940s were solar cooking contests. The property between the pond and Girl Scout butterfly garden was cleared in the early 1950s for tents, and trees were put in to line the main driveway from Corkscrew to the Estero River.
Mound Key was an important site of the Calusa tribe, and most experts believe it to be the site of their capital, Calos. The Mound Key Site on the island was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1970. The island is only accessible by boat from the Koreshan State Historic Site or Lovers Key State Park.
The National Park Service recognizes more than 100 sites across the country. Until recently only one Alabama location was on the list. That location was Tuskegee, Ala.
Koreshan State Historic Site: Lee: 135 acres (55 ha) 1983: Estero River: Home of the Koreshan Unity group Lafayette Blue Springs State Park: Lafayette: 702 acres (284 ha) 2005: Suwannee River: First magnitude spring with 168 million gallons (636 million liters) per day Lake Griffin State Park: Lake: 578 acres (234 ha) 1968: Dead River Oklawaha ...
Prior to the death of the last Koreshan the settlement was deeded to the state of Florida and is now a state historic site. In addition to the historic buildings of the settlement the state park includes canoeing on the Estero river which flows directly next to the settlement as well as the presence of many gopher tortoises who make their ...
She ceded the main portion of the commune grounds to Florida to form a state park in 1961. The Koreshan State Park (now known as the Koreshan State Historic Site) was opened in 1967. Hedwig Michel continued to live in the building known as the "Planetary Court." She died in 1981. She is the only Koreshan buried within the park.
Unofficial Koreshan State Historic Site, unofficial web page. American Communal Utopias and The Koreshan Unity: A Bibliography Brief overview and great bibliography of works, if slightly dated. Turning the Universe Inside-Out: Ulysses Grant Morrow's Naples Experiment Examination of the Naples Experiment, and why it failed.