Historical features about the wider Everglades region: Indigenous history, drainage, conservation, roads, parks and restoration.
Long before roads crossed South Florida, the Calusa built a powerful society around the fish and shellfish of the Gulf…
The Everglades is a homeland as well as a wetland. Drawing on the Miccosukee Tribe's own history, this article traces…
For more than half a century, Florida's leaders, investors and engineers set out to drain and control the Everglades. Their…
At the turn of the twentieth century, egret feathers from South Florida's rookeries were worth a fortune on fashionable hats.…
Decades before Everglades National Park existed, Florida's women's clubs campaigned to protect a royal palm hammock called Paradise Key. Their…
When the Tamiami Trail opened in 1928, it tied Florida's Atlantic and Gulf coasts together across the Everglades. It also…
Ernest F. Coe proposed a national park in the lower Everglades in 1928. It took a coalition of advocates, an…
In 1947, Marjory Stoneman Douglas published The Everglades: River of Grass, helping readers see a wetland many had written off…
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. Army built a Nike Hercules missile base inside Everglades National Park. HM-69 stayed…
For decades, South Florida's water system was built mainly to control floods and supply water. In December 2000, Congress approved…
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