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Description: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés moved his colony to the settlement of the Seloy tribe of the Timucua. Their chief gave them the Great House, a huge circular or oval thatched structure able to hold several hundred people. Around this meeting house the Spanish dug a moat and added fortifications.
Title: Great house of Seloy
Credit: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/7990
Author: Albert Manucy
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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