Everglades City, Florida "Everglades, Florida"
Everglades City Location in Collier County and the state of Florida Location in Collier County and the state of Florida Everglades City (formerly known as Everglades) is a town/city in Collier County, Florida, United States, of which it is the former county seat.
The Gulf Coast Visitor Center for Everglades National Park is in Everglades City. Everglades City is positioned at 25 51 32 N 81 23 05 W. Chokoloskee Bay is approximately ten miles (16 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, and runs southeast to northwest along the mainland of Collier County.
It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), of which 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (21.01%) is water.
Everglades City has a tropical savanna climate, which consists of warm dry winters and hot humid summers with heavy rain.
As of the census of 2000, there were 479 citizens , 230 homeholds, and 154 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.45% White, 0.84% African American, 0.63% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 1.46% from other competitions, and 0.21% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 11.9% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 19.0% from 25 to 44, 30.5% from 45 to 64, and 34.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $36,667, and the median income for a family was $38,929.
The region around Chokoloskee Bay, including the site of Everglades City, was occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans of the Glades culture, who were combined by the Calusa shortly before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, but by the time Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821, the region was uninhabited.
Storter also began entertaining northern tourists who came to Everglade by yacht in the winter to hunt and fish.
The first school in Everglade was organized in 1893.
A Methodist circuit rider began visiting Everglade in 1888, and a Methodist minister became resident the next year, but he left after four years.
After that Everglade was occasionally visited by itinerant preachers of various denominations. The Episcopal Church established a mission at Immokalee which eventually moved to Everglade when revitalized in the 1930s by Harriet Bedell.
In 1922 Barron Collier began buying large areas of territory in what was then southern Lee County.
In 1923 the Florida council created Collier County from Lee County, with the governmental center of county at Everglade.
The town was incorporated the same year as "Everglades" (adding the "s").
The Tamiami Trail, which crossed Collier's domain, passed five miles north of Everglades City.
While assembly was proceeding on the Trail (it was instead of in 1929), Collier pushed assembly of what became State Road 29 from Everglades City to Immokalee, providing the town with its first territory connection to the rest of the state. In 1928, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad began service to Everglades City, which became the southernmost point the Coast Line ever reached.
Service was provided by an extension of the Coast Line's Haines City branch from Immokalee to Deep Lake, where it connected to Collier's Deep Lake Railroad, an earlier barns that transported agricultural freight. The barns was removed in 1957. In 1960 the strong winds and coastal flooding of Hurricane Donna combined to destroy 153 homes in Collier County, as well as inflict primary damage on 409 more, and damage an additional 1,049. Everglades was difficult hit, and two years later, Florida's council moved the governmental center of county to East Naples, Florida.
In 1965, the state council changed the town's name to Everglades City. Historic buildings in Everglades City include the Old Collier County Courthouse, Bank of Everglades Building, and Everglades Laundry (now the Museum of the Everglades).
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