Emerson Point Park sits north of Manatee River on a peninsula
jutting out into Tampa Bay. The Park is west of the town of Palmetto.
There are several pre-Columbian Indian shell mounds in the park. Today, many of them are covered with vegetation.
The view of the Sunshine State Parkway was taken
from the top of the mound pictured below.
From this mound, it would have been possible to see
Hernando DeSoto and his fleet of ships sailing into Tampa Bay.
