Tuesday, March 17, 2015

blog.goodsam.com - Chokoloskee: Florida’s Ultimate Island Escape




From the site: blog.goodsam.com - Chokoloskee: Florida’s Ultimate Island Escape

Life on Chokoloskee, an island in the 10,000-Islands area of the Everglades in the Gulf of Mexico, radiates from Smallwood’s Store. It’s been this way for the past century since Ted Smallwood became the first white man to trade with the local Native Americans. The Smallwood family still runs the store, but it operates today as a museum and depository of all things Chokoloskee.   Planning a visit? Consult Okeechobee Co. Tourism. That story began a couple of thousand years ago with pre-Columbian peoples known by archeologists as the Glades culture. During their habitation, mounds of discarded shells grew as high as 20 feet, making Chokoloskee far higher than the neighboring islands and nearby mainland. American settlement, ne ...Read more...




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