Description: History of Hillsborough County and some of its earliest settlers.
BACKGROUND PHOTO COURTESY OF fLICKR USER, eDSON MATTHEWS . DID YOU KNOW... the Hillsborough River Watershed has supported humans for at least 10,000 years? Native American burial mounds of several tribes are present along the river. Spanish conquistadors explored this river. The Hillsborough River leaves Green Swamp and flows 54 miles down into Tampa Bay. Hillsborough county families Between 1559 and 1819, the area now called Florida was under the rule of four nations: Spain, France, Great Britain and the U
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