Osceola National Forest is a National Forest located in northeast Florida.
Osceola National Forest
A pine woods tree frog in the Osceola National Forest
Highway sign warning drivers to watch for bears crossing Interstate 10 through the Osceola National Forest
Osceola, named Billy Powell at birth in Alabama, became an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfather was a Scotsman, James McQueen. He was reared by his mother in the Creek (Muscogee) tradition. When he was a child, they migrated to Florida with other Red Stick refugees, led by a relative, Peter McQueen, after their group's defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars. There they became part of what was known as the Seminole people.
Osceola by George Catlin, 1838
Historical monument honoring Osceola near his birthplace in Tallassee, Alabama.
"The Wife and Child of Osceola" from Holden's Dollar Magazine, volume 6, no. 4 (October 1850): 591–592.
Osceola stabbing the treaty with his dagger. Statue in Silver Springs, Florida