I am with history hunter & Bumpstick on this, I am in the belief that there were explores here long before Columbus. In the words of Scott Wolter "History is not as be have been told". For the past 2 years have been researching a War of 1812 battle that occurred here, 3 miles from me, while the "facts" of the battle as stated in the history books and local papers is "basically" true, the local people take it as gospel, it did not actually happen in the way it was stated and there was more too it. Talking about closed minded people, even when presented with 1st hand documents of the battle they say that they are wrong, like they were the ones at the battle, 200 years ago. It is an up hill battle on these type people. It is tuff to smarten "stupid".