Hidden History of Everglades City & Points Nearby Book

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction: History of the Last Frontier 11

Part I Everglades City

Carnestown: The Welcome Center 31

Collier County Courthouse, aka Everglades City Hall 32

Bank of Everglades 34

Collier's Town Laundry Building Blossoms into Museum of the Everglades 37

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot 40

The Everglades Inn: Sixty-three Years of Memories 41

The Ivey House: From Recreation Hall to Bed-and-Breakfast 43

Everglades Community Church: The Friendly Little Church on the Circle 44

Everglades City Schools, K-12 46

The Rod & Gun Club's Colorful History 48

Everglade Pioneer

David Graham Copeland: The Driving Force Behind the Last Frontier 51

Colorful Character

Harriet Bedell, Deaconess of the Everglades 52

Part II Special Events

Annual Seafood Festival 57

Everglades National Park Dedication, 1947 59

Hollywood Comes to the Last Frontier 61

Hurricanes in the Last Frontier 63

Operation Everglades: Last of the "Square Grouper" 66

Part III Chokoloskee Island

Smallwood Trading Post with Indians 69

Chokoloskee Island Schools 72

Chokoloskee Island Cemeteries 74

Chokoloskee Church of God: Ninety-seven Years of Ministry 78

Chokoloskee Pioneers

C.G. McKinney: The Sage of Chokoloskee 80

The Charles Sherod "Ted" Smallwood Family 85

A.C. Hancock: School Boat Builder 88

Colorful Characters

Loren G. "Totch" Brown 91

Edgar Watson and Big Six Hannah 95

Part IV Copeland, Jerome and Lee-Cypress

Cypress Logging Industry 99

Janes Restaurant, Copeland Market and the Post Office 102

Copeland Baptist Church 103

Colorful Characters

Frances Hodge and the Bula Baptist Mission 105

Annie Mae Perry, Midwife to Over Five Hundred Children 109

Part V Ochopee

Booming Town 113

Ochopee Landmark: Home of the Smallest Post Office 114

Colorful Character

Mama Hokie, aka Clara McKay 117

Bibliography 121

About the Author 127