The Koreshans

We ran across a new film, which is “kind of” part dramatization, and part historical, of the last days of Cyrus Teed.

Here is a recent article from the website “Fast Food Club”.

It is not February, which is Black History Month, but an article in the August 17, 2025 News-Press, ((1)) repeated from a February 20, 2016 article about the family of Nelson Tillis, purported to be the first African American to settle in Fort Myers.

For a long time, I have occasionally looked and searched the Internet to try and find anything related to the Koreshans who survived long after the death of Koresh in 1908.

April 24, 2025 Studying the Koreshans continues.

Every year about this time, during Halloween, someone shows up at Koreshan to see, or talk about, or experience(?)

[The main part of this article is a re-posting from October 2014] As Florida braces for hurricane named “Milton”, there has been a great deal of talk about the 1921 hurricane known as the “Tampa Bay Hurricane” or the “Tarpon Springs Hurricane”.

It has been nearly five years since I’ve posted, and I never really intended to do so, but I’ve been reading with some sense of what I want to call “amusement”, but this is not an amusing subject.

I realized that almost 20 years of work is located in this “blog”, which wasn’t available back in the mid-1990’s when I started working at the Koreshan State Historic Site, now known at the Koreshan State Park.

In this posting we want to highlight and publicize some of the other sites and resources that are available for studying the Koreshan Unity.

From the Koreshan Archives — About a month early, but in this post we find the birthday of a Koreshan who rarely gets mentioned, but one who contributed a great deal to the cause of the Unity.