In the late 19th century, the first white settlers arrived in the remote TenThousand Islands near the edge of the Everglades. In the 1920s, streetcar-advertising magnate Barron Gift Collier became the region?s largest landowner. He transformed the settlement of "Everglade" into a booming company town to build the final stretch of the Tamiami Trail.
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