Historical Information re: Everglades, Big Cypress, and Related Areas - Everglades Exploration Network2024-03-29T05:48:25Zhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/forum/topics/historical-information-re-everglades-big-cypress-and-related?commentId=2541133%3AComment%3A63297&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI won't forget talking to my…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-08-09:2541133:Comment:632972014-08-09T16:33:54.812ZJayhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/Jay
<p>I won't forget talking to my future wife's Grandfather (b1902) in 1991 in Charleston and discussing our plans to move to Fort Lauderdale. "Fort Lauderdale....hmmm...I think that is between Palm Beach and Miama. It's a little place. Went through there on the train to Miama in the early '20's...not much there as I remember.."</p>
<p>I won't forget talking to my future wife's Grandfather (b1902) in 1991 in Charleston and discussing our plans to move to Fort Lauderdale. "Fort Lauderdale....hmmm...I think that is between Palm Beach and Miama. It's a little place. Went through there on the train to Miama in the early '20's...not much there as I remember.."</p> These maps are circa 1873 and…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-08-07:2541133:Comment:634982014-08-07T16:34:34.227ZAmazon Billhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/Bill
<p>These maps are circa 1873 and were obtained from a professor at FAU who is studying the historic flows of surface water. </p>
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<p>These maps are circa 1873 and were obtained from a professor at FAU who is studying the historic flows of surface water. </p>
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it called MIAMA…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-08-05:2541133:Comment:634952014-08-05T15:56:14.246ZSwamp Hunterhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/Dale
<p>I rarely hear</p>
<p>it called MIAMA anymore.</p>
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<p>it called MIAMA anymore.</p> Livingstone Larned's 1st stor…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-08-05:2541133:Comment:632902014-08-05T13:24:34.533Zshawn beightolhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/shawnbeightol
<p>Livingstone Larned's 1st story of John King's survey party where he is lost with his boy and his boy's friend for weeks in the everglades trying to up and out:…</p>
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<p>Livingstone Larned's 1st story of John King's survey party where he is lost with his boy and his boy's friend for weeks in the everglades trying to up and out:</p>
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<p>The "rest of the story" is spread out over the next 2 years in volumes 88 & 89 of Forest and Stream:</p>
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<p>Save Monroe Station <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Monroe-Station/127926003896482" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Monroe-Station/127926003896482</a></p>
<p>I wish somebody would unclog the upstairs drain and let the bathtub water out because it may come crashing down one day soon from the extra weight and I hope nobody is underneath. The roof has been leaking and the upstairs bathroom floor is already gone, the cast iron tub hanging by the…</p>
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<p>I wish somebody would unclog the upstairs drain and let the bathtub water out because it may come crashing down one day soon from the extra weight and I hope nobody is underneath. The roof has been leaking and the upstairs bathroom floor is already gone, the cast iron tub hanging by the pipes. Im not sure if the bathroom is part of the planned preservation thus the neglect. They may have originally had an outhouse .Maybe someone could organize a volunteer group?</p>
<p> I lived behind Monroe Station 2 years ago for my work but it may be too dangerous now to enter the building. The only small mammals I saw in 4 1/2 months was a stray black cat that lives under the crawl space that came out every night like clockwork and one marsh rabbit that eventually fell prey. But I enjoyed my time there and thanks to the NPS for allowing me to live on site.</p> #31b) Weaver's Station Across…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-07-25:2541133:Comment:634532014-07-25T14:25:22.326Zshawn beightolhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/shawnbeightol
<p>#31b) Weaver's Station <br></br>Across from Fakahatchee Boardwalk<br></br>Weaver Station had a restaurant on the ground floor with rest rooms and accommodations for the <br></br>station keeper on the second floor. In addition, several "tourist cabins" (essentially unfurnished <br></br>small houses), offered a night's rest for those with their own bedding. Eventually, the building was <br></br>destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and needed to be demolished.</p>
<p>#31c) Royal Palm Hammock <br></br>Corner of US41…</p>
<p>#31b) Weaver's Station <br/>Across from Fakahatchee Boardwalk<br/>Weaver Station had a restaurant on the ground floor with rest rooms and accommodations for the <br/>station keeper on the second floor. In addition, several "tourist cabins" (essentially unfurnished <br/>small houses), offered a night's rest for those with their own bedding. Eventually, the building was <br/>destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and needed to be demolished.</p>
<p>#31c) Royal Palm Hammock <br/>Corner of US41 and CR 92</p>
<p>This station is one of the last remaining stations still in existence and is still in operation as a gas station to serve the <br/>public, just as it was when it was built in 1928 by Barron <br/>Collier</p>
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<p>Paolita Station:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/6293765108/in/photostream/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/6293765108/in/photostream/</a></p>
<p><span class=" meta-field photo-title">former site of Paolita Station along Florida's Tamiami Trail</span></p>
<p>Paolita Station, along with Monroe, Weavers, Turner River, Royal Palm Hammock and Belle Meade were roadside motorcycle police sub-stations set-up along the Tamiami Trail soon after it was completed in 1928. The first floor was a gas station, rest stop, and diner for travelers along the trail, with the second floor being for the policeman and his wife, who ran the diner.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">The officers of each station were part of the now-defunct Southwest Mounted Police. Each one patrolled the Trail on motorcycle 5 miles east and west of their station.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Today only Monroe and Royal Palm Hammock Station remain intact, with two outbuildings left at the site of Weavers Station.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Belle Meade was reportedly moved to Everglades City and used as a house. Paolita and Turner River Stations are gone forever.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Scroll down this page to "Maintaining Law and Order" to read a detailed description of these 6 stations: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=woRXF0MWWwoC&lpg=PA21&ots=Alw3Gd1ygQ&dq=paolita%20station%20tamiami&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=true" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?id=woRXF0MWWwoC&lpg=PA21&ots=Alw3Gd1ygQ&dq=paolita%20station%20tamiami&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=true</a></span></p> Here's some pix of what's lef…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-07-25:2541133:Comment:634522014-07-25T14:09:43.929Zshawn beightolhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/shawnbeightol
<p>Here's some pix of what's left of 3 of the 6 stations (monroe, Weavers, Paolita): <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/</a></p>
<p>Here's a link to the slide show: …</p>
<p>Here's some pix of what's left of 3 of the 6 stations (monroe, Weavers, Paolita): <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/</a></p>
<p>Here's a link to the slide show: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/show/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainmanwalkin/sets/72157603952576724/...</a></p>
<p>Here's a description where Weavers was and where the Royal Palm Service Station is STILL functioning:</p>
<p><br/> <cite>shawn beightol said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://gladesgodeep.ning.com/forum/topics/historical-information-re-everglades-big-cypress-and-related?x=1&id=2541133%3ATopic%3A60521&page=1#2541133Comment62450"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>A pretty good description of Monroe Station as one of 6 “Patrol stations [that had] been built,” so reported the Collier County News on November 22, 1928, “...where gas, oil, soft drinks, accessories and other requirements may be had.”..."</p>
<p>The establishment of the Southwest Florida Mounted Police was an integral part of the creation of the six stations along the Tamiami Trail in Collier County. Husband-and-wife teams were hired to manage the stations, selling food, drinks, and gasoline to motorists, with the husband also “deputed by the county sheriff” ostensibly “not so much [to] arrest lawbreakers as to aid motorists in difficulty,” but the remoteness of the station locations still resulted in tense </p>
<p>confrontations.17<br/> It was expected that once an hour during daylight hours, each officer would mount his Harley Davidson motorcycle and patrol the fives miles of roadway to either side of each station.18<br/> William Irwin was the first officer to occupy Monroe Station. Beginning in November 1928, he worked out of the station and was presumably accompanied by his wife, Nettie, and two children.19<br/> Officer Irwin‟s tenure was short. He was killed on January 19, 1929, in a head-on collision while patrolling on his <br/>motorcycle.20 "</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nps.gov/bicy/historyculture/upload/Monroe-Station-Historic-Structure-Report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nps.gov/bicy/historyculture/upload/Monroe-Station-Histor...</a></p>
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<p>the 6 stations were "<span>built at ten-mile intervals, Dade County line to Belle Meade. (Paola, Monroe Station, Carnestown, Weavers Station, Royal Palm Hammock, and Belle Meade.) </span>" <a rel="nofollow" href="http://seminolewar.livejournal.com/188463.html" target="_blank">http://seminolewar.livejournal.com/188463.html</a></p>
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<p>I think, when you measure the distance between those places, its more like 15-20 mile intervals, which makes more sense.</p>
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</blockquote> Here's a story about airboati…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-07-25:2541133:Comment:634512014-07-25T13:31:23.302Zshawn beightolhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/shawnbeightol
<p>Here's a story about airboating with the legendary Sig Walker out of the (closed) trail that bears his name. </p>
<p> the link to the December 1963 Motorboating article (pp 44, 45, & 82) is <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fnlV-t6-Hg4C&lpg=PA82&ots=8yFvg2MHCO&dq=%22sig%20walker%22%20airboat%20trail&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?id=fnlV-t6-Hg4C&lpg=PA82&ots=...</a></p>
<p>For those…</p>
<p>Here's a story about airboating with the legendary Sig Walker out of the (closed) trail that bears his name. </p>
<p> the link to the December 1963 Motorboating article (pp 44, 45, & 82) is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fnlV-t6-Hg4C&lpg=PA82&ots=8yFvg2MHCO&dq=%22sig%20walker%22%20airboat%20trail&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=true" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?id=fnlV-t6-Hg4C&lpg=PA82&ots=...</a></p>
<p>For those interested, there is a mechanism functioning for now that can be used to lobby the opening of some of these trails that have been closed. From what I have read, the Sig Walker Landing was supposed to be opened. The mechanism is the ORV Advisory Council and is open to the public (the 2014 meeting remaining is <strong>2014 Meeting Calendar: </strong><span>Meetings are from 3:30 to 8:00 pm on the following dates: </span><span>* Tuesday, October 7</span></p>
<p><span>- <strong>All meetings will be held at:<br/></strong><span>Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center</span><br/><span>33000 Tamiami Trail East</span><br/><span>Ochopee, FL 34141</span></span> ).</p>
<p>I will be attending to try to lobby to have Monroe South extended to the "Burkhold Trail" that Dale, Chris, Tony and I have used (its like a superhighway through the Cypress) and then across New River extend Skillet ORV south so a loop path would be provided with a canoe/kayak/bicycle launch/parking area at the River. I will also add my voice to the call for the Sig Walker Airboat Trail to be opened that I just hiked with Tom, Albert and will hike again August 2, 7-9.</p>
<p></p> I dont think thats the same W…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-07-16:2541133:Comment:634392014-07-16T18:51:19.419ZSwamp Hunterhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/Dale
<p>I dont think thats the same Wayne. The one I met used to call himself Everglades Wayne, hung around Loop Road with Sue and always wore a black cowboy hat.</p>
<p>I dont think thats the same Wayne. The one I met used to call himself Everglades Wayne, hung around Loop Road with Sue and always wore a black cowboy hat.</p> Dale,
did you mean Wayne Hof…tag:gladesgodeep.ning.com,2014-07-16:2541133:Comment:632462014-07-16T18:18:33.765Zshawn beightolhttp://gladesgodeep.ning.com/profile/shawnbeightol
<p>Dale, </p>
<p>did you mean Wayne Hoffman? He passed away a couple years ago. Had a cabin off I75 south of Bear Island.</p>
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<p>Dale, </p>
<p>did you mean Wayne Hoffman? He passed away a couple years ago. Had a cabin off I75 south of Bear Island.</p>
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