Description - Guana River State Park was recently accquired by
the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
and is now included in the reserve. It is no longer a State
Park. Copyright: Florida Division of Recreation & Parks Guana
River State Park The GTM Reserve - Guana River contains
seventeen known significant historic or prehistoric cultural
sites. Extensive shell middens exist, especially at Shell Bluff
Landing and Wright's Landing, along the Tolomato River. The
Shell Bluff site also contains an early I9th century Minorcan
coquina block well and has been listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. The Wright's Landing site is believed to be
the location of a 17th century Spanish mission, the Nativity of
our Lady of Tolomato. The site also contains a prehistoric
earthen burial mound and has been nominated as a National
Register site. The land was purchased with Conservation and
Recreational Lands and Save Our Coast funds by the State of
Florida in 1984. The tract was privately ow