THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
It did not create the Southeast.
It interrupted it.
THE MOMENT WHEN TWO HISTORIES COLLIDED
This is perhaps the most powerful way to understand the site.
Capachequi represents two historical timelines meeting.
One timeline begins long before Europeans arrived.
It includes generations of Native families, houses, fields, ceremonies, trade, political relationships, and local knowledge.
The other timeline begins with Spanish expansion across the Atlantic and the violent colonial projects of the sixteenth century.
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