Koreshan State Historical Site

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3800 Corkscrew Road
Estero, FL 33928
(239) 992-0311
www.floridastateparks.org/koreshan/

A colony of the Koreshan religious group, who believed that the surface of the Earth was it inside of a spherical hollow in solid rock, with the sun in the center.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshanity

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Coordinates: 26°26'4"N 81°48'56"W

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dwellspompano

The leader of the group went so far as to constuct a large measurment device that "proved" the hollow sphere theory.

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