Smallwood Store - Chokoloskee Island – Everglades
Chokoloskee Island was built by the first human inhabitants 2,000 years ago using the shells from the various shellfish which comprised a large part of their diet. European settlement came to the area in the latter part of the 19th century and Ted Smallwood established a trading post on this site, later to become Smallwood’s Store, in 1906. The store closed in 1982 and was reopened as a museum by Smallwood’s granddaughter in 1990 as it remains to the present, filled with artifacts from the area providing a window into pioneer Everglades life.
Ted Smallwood's Store, Chocoloskee, Florida
Having just completed reading Peter Matthiessen's Killing Mister Watson, I decided to make a pilgrimage to Chocoloskee to view this site in person. As chronicled in Matthiesseen's 1991 historical fiction account, Edgar J. Watson was a prosperous pioneer in Florida's 10,000 islands, who had a checkered and violent past (he had bragged of killing 57 people, had been implicated as the killer of the famed female outlaw, Belle Starr, had slit the throat of an early Chocoloskee pioneer who survived the attack, and was suspected of a number of local killings including the woman, Hannah Smith.) Waton was met by a possee of Chocoloskee locals on the landing of Smallwood's store on October 24, 1910. Reportedly Watson attempted to fire his shotgun at thee possse, but when it misfired, he was met by a hail of at least 33 bullets and more than a few shotgun blasts.
Smallwood Store Indian Trading Post
Everglades City & Chokoloskee, Florida | Untold Stories
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Chokoloskee Island Post Hurricane Irma Part 1
Quick video of the damage sustained out on Chokoloskee Island from Hurricane Irma.
4K Chokoloskee | Florida
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Chokoloskee Island, FL Fish Hawk Pass
A breakdown of common hazards that present themselves to the driver at various stages of the pass. Running the Pass Part of my Thesis document.
2012 Edge of the Everglades: Sierra Club Outing
This Sierra Club Outing based in Everglades City, Florida, included 4 kayaking paddles, a swamp hike thigh-deep in water, three nature/wildlife hikes, a visit to Smallwood's Store including an account of the historic Kill Mister Watson episode upon which the book is based as related to us by the great-granddaughter of one of the eight vigilante shooters. The paddle through mangrove forest was exceptional!
EVERGLADES CITY... A POINT OF VIEW.
It is at the mouth of the Barron River, on Chokoloskee Bay. Chokoloskee Bay is approximately ten miles (16 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, and runs southeast to northwest along the mainland of Collier County. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands.[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), of which 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (21.01%) is water.
Everglades City has a tropical savanna climate, which consists of warm dry winters and hot humid summers with heavy rain.
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Pot smuggling took over his small fishing town. Now he tells that story
Tim McBride calls himself a third generation pot hauler from Everglades City, a tiny fishing town on the southwest tip of the state. He was swept up in the mass drug arrests that made the town infamous, and his book chronicles his exploits.
Video by Emily Michot / Miami Herald
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Our Corona Moment
Stopping on our way back from camping overnight at Pavilion Key at Demijohn Key we took a break and enjoyed our surreal surroundings in paradise, our 'corona moment'. These are in the Ten Thousand Islands of Everglades National Park.
Chokoloskee residents shocked by neighbor's shootout death
Residents of a Chokoloskee RV park are in a state of disbelief after hearing a neighbor was killed in a shootout with police in Central Florida over the weekend after he shot up a pipeline.
Smallest Post Office in America - Ochopee Florida
Aspace For3 visits the smallest post office in America located in Ochopee Florida U.S.. This tiny 7x8 post office is fully operational and open to the public. Ochopee Post Office provides curbside mail to over 900 residents including Native American Indians, Miccosukee & Seminole. This is a must do in the Florida Everglades when visiting Ochopee Florida remember to make a stop at The smallest Post Office in the United States Of America.
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New Termite species found in American
Termite Conspiracy. Formosan Termite USA infestation spread by Indians, Trading Post, mail, Cuba, Everglades Ter, Chokoloskee City, US Post Office Box 310, Everglade City, and Smallwood Store known as Ole Indian Trading Post in early 1900's. Cleveland Home Inspector Marko Vovk traveled to Fort Myers, Marco Island, Naples, Estrus Florida, Everglade City, and Chokoloskee Island. He visited, Alligator Alley, Koreshan Unity Settlement, Dr. Cyrus Teed century home, Watsons Place, Swamp Buggy Racetrack at the Swamp Buggie Sippy Hole, and it was not until his last stop at the Smallwood Store also known as the Smallwood Trading Post or Ole Indian Trading Post that he discovered where and how the Formosan Termites entered America.
American Subterranean Termite travels up into the home through mud shelter tubes. The Formosan Termite which can have millions of termites only needs humidity, some warmth, and lives in the walls of the home. The Formosan Termite which originated from China was transported to Formosa Taiwan where it got its name. The termite was then transported to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and finally Cuba in mid-1800's. We decided to head to the Everglades. We traveled US highway 41 also known as The Tamiami Trail which was constructed in 1928. This Highway which was full of alligators and conveniently called Alligator Alley, we stopped at Everglade City in a town called Estrus Florida, to check out the Koreshan Unity Settlement which was once run by Dr. Cyrus Teed, a cult leader who convinced hundreds of people in late 1800's, to live in a communistic community. This cult believed that the earth was hollow and that sun, moon, seven planets, and the universe existed on the inside of the earth. We inspected all five of these 100-year-old Koreshan structures and only found a few red ants or flying ant colonies.
We stopped at the Naples Swamp Buggy Race Track. Swamp Buggies are known as Tumble Bugs were used in the Everglades in the 1930s because they traveled the dry land, shallow mud, sand, shallow water, through dense vegetation, over logs and they floated. This Mile O Mud or 7/8 of a mile round tack with one diagonal line through the middle had three hidden deep mud drops with the largest called the Sippy Hole were some buggies can stall or get stuck. While at the race, one of the Swamp Buggy Beauty Queens said we should charter a boat and travel to the 10,000 everglade islands to look for these termites.
We passed tourist trap Air Boat rides and ended at the furthest boat rental area in the Everglades on Chokoloskee Island. Our captain was a 5th generation native named Captain Corey Mac. He took us too several Everglade islands to search for this termite. We did find the famous outlaw Mr. Watson's Place where a century ago he manufactured sugar cane syrup. Edgar Bloody Watson whom now a book about him has called Killing Mister Watson, would hire transient people to work and when they asked for payment, he killed them. After this serial killer who possibly was one of Jesse James Outlaws that was hiding from the law in the Everglades killed over 50 people, he was gunned down by 33 bullets from locals of Chokoloskee Island. We saw endangered species like the Bald Eagle, Roseate Spoonbill, several and manatees. Our final stop was famous Smallwood's Trading Post, Ole Indian Trading Post and Museum which is now a historical site. We noticed a wax figure of the original owner of this trading post named Ted Smallwood. In 1891, Ted Smallwood started the post office box 310 and used the store for the local island gatherings, and mail sorting.
Ted Smallwood would trade with the Indians and with Cuba; He received mail for the locals and delivered mail to Marco Island and other Gulf Cities. While examining the Post Office area, we noticed it was made of old wood mail and trading crates. Looking more closely, we notice structural damage done by Formosan Termites because of the fecal pellets that were left behind in their destructive galleries. Ted Smallwood may have obtained these Formosan Termites from Cuba in wood crates. These termites were then transported to Marco Island and other Gulf Cities through the mail service. So now, you know the story, China, Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii, and Cuba Ted Smallwood Trading Post, Marco Island, and then the Gulf Cities, with the heavy infestation in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Now 100 years later, this Formosan Termite has started to infest the northern states of America. Ohio has already had many Formosan termite Infestations. If you think, you have a better story, go ahead, and put in the comment section.
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Gator Nate & Cousin Chokoloskee at The IBC's Naples Florida August 2015
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The most HAUNTED place in the Everglades!
I am working with the owners of the Everglades Rod and Gun Club to host REAL paranormal tours through the month of October! I will be going back soon to film an entire investigation, but in the short time that we visited we experienced so much activity! Please email me if you would like to join me one weekend this October in the Florida Everglades! SouthernAfterlife@gmail.com
Everglades National Park backcountry canoe trip January 2012
See some of the sights on a 5 day canoe trip into the backcountry of Everglades National Park. We'll leave Chokoloskee and head 40 miles south as far as Rogers River Bay and back. Read a full account of our journey at
Waters of Destiny - Taming the Everglades, the determined hand of man - 2/3
Second of three parts of the complete film (late 1950s) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Central and South Florida Flood Control District -- renamed in 1972 as the South Florida Water Management District.
Wildlife photography is by E.W. Dutton; filmed in Kodachrome.
The full-length version is here:
(26:50 minutes)
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This is an superb overview: Everglades History - Man vs Nature (Hootch TV)
Part 1: (6:33 minutes)
Part 2: (6:26 minutes)
Part 3: (5:01 minutes)
Part 4: (5:42 minutes)
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River of Interests: Water Management in South Florida and the Everglades, 1948-2000
by Matthew C. Godfrey, Historian, Historical Research Associates, Inc. with contributions by Theodore Catton
In the spring of 2004, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA), to complete a study of the water resources system in South Florida (generally the region south of Orlando) from 1948 to 2000. This history was to include a discussion of all interests involved in water management -- whether federal, state, or local -- rather than just focusing on the history of the Corps' Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project (C&SF Project), first instituted in 1948.