Velda Mound (8LE44) is a Native American archaeological site located in northern Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, United States.

Velda Mound was built in approximately 1450 by Fort Walton peoples and occupied by their descendants the Apalachee until about 1625.

[2][3] The Spanish explorers called this area Apalachee Province in recognition of the tribe's power, a territory which also included the Lake Jackson Mounds and major center of Anhaica.

Velda Mound was abandoned by indigenous peoples by the beginning of the Spanish Mission Period (ca.

In March 1922, a Florida State College for Women instructor, Emma Boyd, was killed when a portion of the mound collapsed while she and her friends were excavating it.