History of the Everglades Told Through Vintage Images

Feb. 21, 2012 - PRLog -- The newest additions to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America and Postcards of America series is The Everglades from local authors Robert S. Carr and Timothy A. Harrington. The books boast more than 200 vintage photographs and 15 postcard memories of days gone by.

The Everglades once blanketed a quarter of Florida. Stretching from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, its saw grass prairies, mangrove swamps, and hammocks were home to a profusion of animals, plants, and prehistoric Native Americans, as well as Seminoles, Miccosukees, and Gladesmen of historic times.

In 1904, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward ran for Florida governor with the political platform of creating farmland by dredging the Everglades and spilling its water into the ocean. By 1914, this spectacular natural feature was on the verge of destruction, and environmentalist May Mann Jennings led a grassroots movement to preserve Royal Palm Hammock. In the 1930s, Ernest Coe and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas fought to preserve a larger area, culminating in the creation of Everglades National Park in 1947.

To tell this story, the authors reviewed thousands of images that provide rare glimpses into the human ecology of the Everglades. The most evocative photographs were selected from the records of Everglades National Park, the State Archives of Florida, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the Broward County Historical Commission, and private collections.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!
When: Monday, April 9th
Where: Fort Lauderdale Historical Society
219 SW 2nd Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or
www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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With more than 7,500 local history titles published to date, Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Widely recognized sepia books feature hundreds of vintage historical images.