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Museum of the Everglades, Everglades City, FL

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Museum of the Everglades

A historic museum in Everglades City, housed in a 1920s laundry building, covering roughly two millennia of regional history.

105 West Broadway Avenue, Everglades City, FL 34139 · Everglades City, FL

About Museum of the Everglades

The museum sits in Everglades City, a remote former trading town reached by a drive across the Everglades. The town grew as the base for building the Tamiami Trail in the 1920s and served as the region's first county seat. The museum occupies a building first opened in 1927 as a commercial laundry, restored to its Collier-era appearance and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its permanent and rotating exhibits cover more than 2,000 years of human activity in the area and the stories of people who settled the Everglades frontier. It lies about 35 miles east of downtown Naples.

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  • #everglades
  • #national register
  • #1920s architecture
  • #Collier County

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