St. Augustine Alligator Farm

What’s more Floridian than an alligator? The St. Augustine Alligator Farm has been a local institution since 1893. Originally created to showcase reptiles and ostriches to Gilded Age tourists, the Alligator Farm has grown into an accredited zoo the entire ...

Alligator

Originally called Alpata Telophka, or Alligator Town, this site was a Seminole village, ruled by the powerful chief Alligator, an instigator of the Dade Massacre, which began the great Seminole War of 1835. Following the cessation of hostilities, a white ...

Alligator Lake Recreation Area

Halpatter Tustenugee, or Chief Alligator, was the Chief of a Seminole village in what is now Lake City. A life-size statue honoring this leader is located at the recreation area.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

"Alligator" Mound

On this bluff lies one of the two great animal effigy mounds built by Ohio's prehistoric people. Shown here, Alligator Mound is a giant earthen sculpture of some four-footed animal with a long, curving tail. Archaeologists believe the animal is ...