The reason for the building of the drugstore was provide some security to the local settlement. The drug store at the time was a little further from the settlement perhaps more closer to the fort maybe the reason for this is to provide any medicine the soldiers might have needed. The drug store sold liquor, tobacco, medicine and many Indian remedies. Sadly however when the drug store and parking lot was put over Indian Burial Ground and Chief Tolomato's grave. Today it is not mentioned unless you were to go inside the drug store and read the gravestone which is inside the store which is directly over where he is buried so I been told.

In 1880 a pharmacist purchased the drug store from the Gomaas family and he moved it to Bay Street. Eventually after the fire of 1887 he then again moved it to its present location. Hence the reason why it sits on Indian burial ground.  Today it was a museum but over time it went through a series of changes and is presently owned by the Harris foundation.

The drug store even still has the old soda fountain and sits near the cemetery. Alot of people tell haunting tells about the drugstore but putting a building on an Indian chiefs skeletal remains is just asking for trouble. Although from our investigation I felt a sense of contention from the ghost here. Perhaps because even though it was moved to burial ground there still was a gravestone for the chief inside honoring him. Below you will find what is written on his stone.

"NOTIS. This werry elaborte pile is ereckted in memery of Tolomato a Seminole Ingine cheef whoos wigwarm stuud on this spot and sirroundings. Wee cherris his memery as he was a good harted cheef. He wood knot take yoour skalp without you begged him to do so or pade him sum munny. He always akted more like a Christsun gentle man than a savage Ingine. Let him R.I.P." 

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