ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — 1000 years ago, people carried shells here – adding them to an already massive mound that’s 900 feet long, 300 feet wide, and 23 feet above the average high tide.
A shell mound — part of the indigenous Tocobaga people’s village — is also part of the Jungle Prada neighborhood in St. Pete, looking out over Boca Ciega Bay.
Part of the mound is in the Jungle Prada de Narváez Park, and another part reaches across the property of the Anderson family, purchased in the 1940s by Harold “Happy” Anderson…