Article
The origin of early Everglades landowners.
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Disciplines
Abstract
Census takers in 1890 found less than 2,400 people on the Florida mainland south of Lake Okeechobee, and most of these were scattered in tiny hamlets along the coast (Figure 1; U.S. Department of the Interior 1895). Indeed, South Florida-dominated by the Everglades-remained a wetland wilderness until the Florida East Coast Railroad reached Miami in 1896. With the exception of a few hundred Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, very few people wandered into (let alone lived in) the Everglades.
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Abstract only. Full-text article is available only through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Florida Geographer, 33, 18-26.
Language
en_US
Publisher
Florida Society of Geographers
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
Meindl, C. F. (2002). The origin of early Everglades landowners. Florida Geographer, 33, 18-26.