Juan Ponce de León 
           SEEKING THE fOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
   

Many significant historical events and sites are often shrouded in myth until someone discovers and proves it is a historic fact. In 1513, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León arrived in Florida with three ships and 200 armed men.  His quest was to discover an ancient fountain where life-extending waters flowed and abundant gold could be found.

Perhaps, if Ponce de León had not died while journeying into what is today Georgia, he would have discovered an ancient fountain where life-extending water flowed and gold was abundant. The Source of Lithia Spring Water may indeed be Ponce de Leon's lost fountain of youth, and there is tangible, substantial, clear, and convincing archaeological and historic proof  to verify this claim.

Shamanic Healing water temple Discovered

For thousands of years, Lithia Springs has been a sacred Indian medicine spring where indigenous tribes journeyed to this sacred place to drink its life-extending water. Archaeological excavations at Lithia Springs' site have unearthed an ancient Megalithic Smiling Turtle pyramid that is thousands of years old.

Since prehistoric times, the old and the sick have made pilgrimages to the Fountain of Youth Water Temple to heal their bodies, minds, and spirits. Giant Frog Rock and Giant Stone Serpent effigys have guarded the Smiling Turtle Pyramid for thousands of years. This ancient shamanic water temple and its fountain that flows with anti-aging lithium mineral spring water are clear and convincing evidence that Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth is a historic fact. 

       Smiling Trutle sTEP-pyramid Discovered 

Pristine Lithia Spring Water flows from the ruins of a megalithic water temple that has survived both time and urban development. What remains of this prehistoric water temple are magnificent ancient ruins that give evidence to the significance of the healing powers of Lithia Spring Water. The builders of this forgotten ancient wonder are unknown, and their great civilization has been buried under the Georgia red clay for thousands of years and forgotten until now.

Archological excavations have discovered prehistoric artifacts that prove indigenous people have made pilgrimages to the Fountain of Youth Water Temple to drink its healing water. The archaeological artifact evidence discovered at the ancient spring site suggests that the American Mound Builders (possibly Adena Culture) carved from granite boulders giant animals (effigies) that have stood guard over the springs for thousands of years. This ancient water temple is a timeless beacon that calls out to future generations of health seekers to come drink its curative, life-extending water.

Anti-ageing water is defined by the natural lithium-bicarbonate content of the water. The 100% all-natural alkaline lithium mineral spring water that flows from the Ancient Megalic Water Temple is America's only known commercial source.

Scientists have discovered lithium water extends cell life and human life span by stimulating the production of telomerase, an anti-ageing enzyme responsible for extenuating telomere length. 
* Source: NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151375/                                                             

         ponce de Leon's Explorations 

Spanish sources asserted that the Taino Indians of Puerto Rico spoke of a magic fountain and its anti-aging water that existed somewhere north of Cuba and the Caribbean. These Taino rumors conceivably reached the ears of Ponce de León, In search of this “fountain of youth,” as well as more lands and gold, he set sail from Puerto Rico in March 1513 to explore the lands to the north of Puerto Rico. He armed three ships, well-crewed with sailors and other seamen. It was on March 27 that he first caught sight of La Florida.

In February 1521, Ponce de León departed San Juan on his second expedition to Florida, accompanied by two ships and around 200 people—plus horses, tools, and seeds—to set up a farming colony. They landed on the southwest coast of Florida, near what is now Charlotte Harbor, with the intention of founding a colony. The exact circumstances of what happened next are uncertain, but it appears that in July of 1521, local Natives attacked the party of settlers, leaving Ponce de León fatally wounded by an arrow in his thigh. His comrades sailed back with him to Havana, Cuba, where he died.
 
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, at the age of thirteen, he was shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. He spent the next seventeen years living among the Calusa Indians.This allowed him to learn several native languages and he later served as a translator for the first Jesuits and Ponce de Leon.

He derided Ponce de León in his 1575 memoir, "Juan spent six months looking for the Fountain". He writes,  "It is cause for merriment, that Juan Ponce de Leon went north La Florida to find [it].”Sources: Ponce de León: Florida's First Spanish Explorer. University of South Florida: