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Falling Waters State Park in northwestern Florida is centered on Falling Waters Falls, a 73-foot waterfall that drops into a deep sinkhole and vanishes into a cavern below, in a landscape shaped by limestone, sandy soils, sinkholes, caverns, and springs. The site also preserves a long human history: Seminole warriors used its sinkholes as a refuge during the Seminole Wars, a Civil War-era gristmill and later a distillery operated here, and Florida’s first oil well was drilled here from 1919 to 1921. Archaeological work in 2007 uncovered Native artifacts dating back roughly 1,000 to 1,500 years.
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