Around Lake Okeechobee

Barbara D. Oeffner, Amie Dunning

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781439626115
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

From the Calusa Indians to the travelers who used boats for transport in the early 1900s and up to the prosperous farms and cattle ranches of today, the Everglades has evolved into a mecca for fishing, birding, and hiking. The smell of orange blossoms entices the settler to an untamed land where bears, deer, and snakes still inhabit the wilderness and where alligator hunting and fishing are still popular sports. Lake Okeechobee is 110 miles around from Pahokee to Canal Point, Okeechobee, Lakeport, Moore Haven, Clewiston, South Bay, and Belle Glade. To cross Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf, a boat starts in Stuart and ends at Port Mayaca, crossing Lake Okeechobee to the Moore Haven lock and out the Caloosahatchee River past Lake Hicpochee and west to Fort Myers. Around Lake Okeechobee presents images from the Clewiston Museum, Lawrence E. Will Museum, state archives, and private collections, painting a history of the boom and bust, the boaters and farmers, and the cattlemen and ranchers who have settled and raised their families here.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - GLADES PIONEERS
• Two - STORM OF 1928
• Three - EARLY DAYS IN BELLE GLADE
• Four - BOATS AND BAYS
• Five - CLEWISTON, “AMERICA’S SWEETEST TOWN”
• Six - SUGARCANE AND CALAMITIES
• Seven - PATCHWORK, POLITICIANS, AND PARTIES
• Eight - PRISONERS, PLANES, AND PRIZE CATCHES
• Nine - PAHOKEE, MOORE HAVEN, AND OKEECHOBEE
• BIBLIOGRAPHY