A small park at Taylor Creek commemorates the Battle of Okeechobee. For decades in the first part of the 1800s, the Seminole Indians resisted forced resettlement to Oklahoma by staying in the Everglades, which covered much of southern Florida. On Christmas Day in 1837, around 800 soldiers, led by Colonel Zachary Taylor (who would later become the 12th President of the United States), fought with a few hundred Seminoles here. At least 26 US soldiers and 11 Seminoles were killed, before the Seminoles escaped back into the Everglades.
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