Tocobaga

The Tocobaga chiefdom lay at the northern end of Old Tampa Bay in Florida, with its principal town probably at the Safety Harbor site.

In 1528 Pánfilo de Narváez landed near Tampa Bay and fought the local people. In 1567 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés reconciled its chief with the Calusa and left a garrison; by January 1568 the soldiers were dead and the town deserted. A Spanish expedition killed the Tocobaga chief in 1612. Disease and raids reduced the people, though some still lived near San Marcos in the 1720s and 1730s.