Everglades City & Chokoloskee, Florida | Untold Stories | Florida History

In the late 18th century, the first white settlers arrive in the remote ten-thousand island near the edge of the Florida Everglades. In the 1920s, streetcar-advertising magnate Barron Gift Collier became the largest landowner in the region--with big plans for its future.

The sunshine state has a rich and colorful history. For hundreds of years the state has attracted dreamers, opportunists, inventors and fortune-seekers. WGCU's Untold Stories aims to preserve the history of Southwest Florida communities.

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