The aboriginal Americans who roamed the peninsula during this period were hunters and gatherers, living on wildlife and wild plants.
Native Americans continued to live here during this time by hunting and gathering.
On April 15, 1528, the Spanish explorer Pánfilo de Narváez made landfall in Tampa Bay somewhere near the mouth of the Alafia River.
The European settlement of the Alafia River watershed began in the 1800s.
The Alafia River flows beneath a bridge; photo by Bryan Weinstein