The winds of World War II carried with them enormous cultural and economic change. Rural Immokalee, built by pioneer entrepreneurs on a foundation of cattle and logging, was not immune; it also entered a new era of evolution. A bomber-training base became the Immokalee Regional Airport. Oil was discovered. Expanding vegetable farming lured farm workers from other states and other countries. And a new industry was born with establishment of a Seminole Indian gambling casino. Immokalee not only survived this upheaval, it flourished as a culturally and economically diverse community which today remains the heart of agriculture in Southwest Florida.
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