Seminole Village - Okeechobee, Florida, USA
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N 27° 04.419 W 081° 06.805
17R E 488754 N 2994598
Seminole Village now known as Brighton Reservation is one of six reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Waymark Code: WM1BTKJ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 04/03/2025
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"The Florida guide referred to a "Seminole Village" in 1939, south of the town of Brighton, on a 35,660-acre reservation:
Here approximately 100 Indians are employed on CCC projects in road building, fencing, water development, and revegetation. All this group are Cow Creek, or Muskogee, differing in language from the Big Cypress Indians of the west coast, who are Mikasuki. Reservation Indians farm the center of cleared hammocks and herd some 800 head of Hereford and Angus cattle on a subsistence basis. Families live in groups of palm-thatched chuckoos, 10 feet by 12 feet, containing raised sleeping platforms covered with mosquito netting. One chuckoo serves as the family dining room, another as the kitchen. Both children and adults receive instruction in the village school, which is equipped with modern facilities, including a community workroom and shop, men's and women's showers, and a laundry." (source The WPA Guide to Florida, pages 468 & 469) (
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Today the 'Seminole Village' has become the Brighton Reservation and families live in conventional housing, but many still live in clusters or camps as they are known.
The coordinates for this posting are of the Red Barn which is a historical site that was constructed by the CCC and still stands. This site was the beginning place for the Seminole Tribe's cattle operations. Today the Seminole Cattle operations are the 12th largest in the country. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 and was a central location of the Brighton Reservation's historical and cultural life.