This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Transforming Swamps Into Gardens Everglades Drainage Project Opens Vast Farmland
The Everglades of Florida, once a vast impassable morass, are being drained and transformed into a wet prairie with farms, gardens, plantations, and packing plants. The plan centers on five main canals from Lake Okeechobee to tidewater, lowering the lake to reclaim land and create irrigation water amid a rock rim that confines floodwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everglades
Florida
Peninsula of
Lake Okechobee
Lake Michigan
United States
North Pacific Coast
Guilt
Atlantic
Glades
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Okechobee
Mx — J. O. Wright
Biverglades
Fort Meyers
Fort Lauderdale
Caloosahatchee River
New River
Gulf
Ocean
Florida Keys
San Antonio
Medina Valley Irrigation Co
Guadalupe
San Marcos
Comal
Cotulla