Lasting Impressions

Historical marker location:

4500 Sunray Road South, Monticello, Florida

( Marker can be reached from Sunray Road, 0.6 miles south of Mahan Drive (U.S. 90), on the right when traveling south.)

The first European to explore Florida was actually a Spanish sailor named Juan Ponce de León in 1513, not the more well-known Christopher Columbus.