The Lake Dexter Tract is part of the Lake George Forest an area we worked with as we toured a native American wall and Indian mound in the area. Lake Dexter is part of 19,000 acres its today an area set aside for hunting. Its also been an area used for cattle grazing. Its know for its high content in shells we know  cause we found many large shells embedded along its dirt roads.

There is a ranch further back, a pond, and quite a few houses down some of its dirt roads its a community within a community. There are trails we just walked its lonely dark road for a few miles.

The area is rich with native American history there is mounds places where the Indians once hunted etc. This is why I chose it cause its the element of surprise. I did find some animal bones on the road as well but nothing to out of the ordinary here. Being that its so close to the Ocala national forest I was hoping we would get some bigfoot activity.

Many of the mounds in the area have been used to make roads. Long leaf slash pine is the dominant tree in the area and of course Lake Dexter is about 1800 acres residing here also.

A local famous story passed around over the years is about Bartram making his way down the river to a point where it gets about 300 feet wide passing into Lake Dexter. During his travels he remembers seeing a large school of fish and voracious alligators. He called his area Battle Lagoon. Even as far as 1940 the area here was known as the striking ground because of the high numbers of large mouthed bass that break the surface here. He spoke of a small young fish of bright silver color at which the fish were striking at today known as Shadine.

We never made it to the lake but we did traverse deep into the unit and I must say it made one hell of an interesting adventure for our team. To learn more about the area please visit...Click Here: Lake George Forest

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Lord Rick