Fort Myers in Vintage Postcards

Fort Myers lies on the beautiful, wide Caloosahatchee River. Tropical flowers and palm trees dot the landscape, which today boasts a revitalized downtown, historic neighborhoods, shopping, and a breathtaking waterfront. The fort itself, named for Lt. Col. Abraham Myers, was established to quell uprisings and help the Indian Removal campaigns. It was later used by Union forces in the Civil War, abandoned, and then reoccupied by courageous settlers who relied on the cattle business and farming to sustain families and the community. In the late 1800s, Fort Myers began to attract famous winter residents, such as "electrician" Thomas Edison, as well as wealthy sportsmen trying their luck at tarpon fishing. When the "iron horse" finally arrived in 1904, Fort Myers experienced an economic transformation, and her days as a frontier cow town were numbered.

Author: Gregg Turner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 05/25/2005
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.58w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780738518077

About the Author
Turner, Gregg: - Using antique postcards, period brochures, and maps, author Gregg Turner presents a visual retrospective of the "City of Palms" from the 1890s to the 1960s. His other Arcadia titles include Railroads of Southwest Florida, Venice in the 1920s, Fort Myers (with historian Stan Mulford), and A Short History of Florida Railroads.