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While visitors to Koreshan State Park in Estero have often asked whether there was any connection between Cyrus Teed Koresh the man who founded The Koreshan Unity which called the land home beginning in the early 1800s, and David Koresh the man who led the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas from the mid 1980s until the group’s fiery demise during an FBI siege gone wrong on their Mount Carmel compound on April 19th, 1993 the answer was always no, there is no connection between the two and the similarity between their names is purely coincidental. Well, new evidence has come to light that seems to prove there was most certainly a connection of some kind. ....
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While visitors to Koreshan State Park in Estero have often asked whether there was any connection between Cyrus Teed Koresh the man who founded The Koreshan Unity which called the land home beginning in the early 1800s, and David Koresh the man who led the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas from the mid 1980s until the group’s fiery demise during an FBI siege gone wrong on their Mount Carmel compound on April 19th, 1993 the answer was always no, there is no connection between the two and the similarity between their names is purely coincidental. Well, new evidence has come to light that seems to prove there was most certainly a connection of some kind. ....
Koresh, born Vernon Wayne Howell, made religious claims strikingly similar to those of Cyrus Teed, an eclectic physician and alchemist who founded a commune in Estero, Florida in 1894. ....
Thirty years after the Waco siege, we dive into the world of the little-known Florida doctor and cult leader, now credited as David Koresh's predecessor. ....