Koreshan State Historic Site

Koreshan State Historic Site
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
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Location	Lee County, Florida, United States
Nearest city	Estero, Florida
Coordinates	26°26.0′N 81°49.0′W / 26.4333°N 81.8167°W / 26.4333; -81.8167
Area	135 acres (0.55 km2)
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection

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.

It contains areas of pine flatwoods habitat and the site of a religious colony, the Koreshan Unity, whose last members deeded the land to the state in 1961.^[1]

Flora

The Koreshans imported a wide range of plant species from across the world, including: an Araucaria bidwillii (false monkey puzzle) tree, which is indigenous to Queensland, Australia, and drops seed pods as large as a football; a number of sausage trees, which are native to Africa and a favored food of giraffes; eucalyptus, mango and other fruit bearing trees; an extraordinary amount of Japanese bamboo that originally hails from the Edison and Ford Winter Estates; and many flowering trees and plants of a wide variety.

Fauna

Among the

• 
  Founder's House.
• 
  The Bamboo Landing.
• 
  An ornamental bridge.
• 
  A

  gopher tortoise

  in the park.
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  An otter on the Estero River.
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  Herons on the Estero.

References

External links

• Koreshan State Park at Florida State Parks

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