JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There is a mystery surrounding the Andrew Jackson statue in front of the Jacksonville Landing after someone placed a fake Native American head on the monument.

City workers removed the head around 11 a.m. Tuesday but don't know who put the head there or why.

Jackson was the seventh president of the U.S. and was an American military figure who led several campaigns against the Seminole Indians in Florida, including the Second Seminole War which started in 1835 and lasted for over six years.

The city of Jacksonville is named after Jackson, though some people think his presidency and the policies he enacted were part of an ugly chapter in American history.



Jackson was a known slave owner and instituted the Indian Removal Act, also known as the Trail of Tears, which saw thousands of Native Americans forced to move to Western reservations, with many of them dying along the way, as settlers began to populate the Eastern United States.

