 Boggy Island was an autonomous black Seminole village that was settled by Central African slaves from Kongo.Black Seminoles settled near the Boggy Island area of Lake Panasoffkee around 1813 and named it Sitarkey's Village after Sitarkey, an Alachua Seminole who had settled in the area.Nearby laid the areas of Gum Slough and Indian Mound Springs.