The City of Fort Lauderdale has a hidden history beneath its sandy beaches. Now — there’s a new push to get a special designation for one area. Heather Walker has this 7Spotlight.

Bob Carr: “This beach park has a special story.”

It can be easy to overlook the small plaque on a monument near the pedestrian bridge on Fort Lauderdale Beach.

Tucker Howell: “I’ve walked by it probably 50 times this year, I’ve never read it once.”

The tablet marks the site of a fort built in 1839 during the Seminole Wars that the US waged against Native Americans.

Bob Carr: “This was the American government’s attempt to move all of the indigenous Seminoles and Miccosukees out of Florida. And this fort was constructed with the idea of facilitating that. One of the sad chapters in American history.”

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