The Dynamite Days of Middle School Prior Knowledge

The Dynamite Days of Middle School Prior Knowledge Thomas M. Tufts

What you need to know • The Everglades • Landforms of the Everglades • Sheet flow • People involved • Obstacles to sheet flow • People of the Everglades • Info for the book • Benefits of Restoration

Original Everglades

Everglades Animals

Everglades Landforms

Sawgrass Marsh

Hardwood Hammock

Pine Rockland

Cypress Swamp

Cypress Head

Coastal Prairie

Mangrove Prairie

Florida Bay

The Past and The Present

Original Sheetflow

Current Sheetflow

Comparison of Sheetflow

• Invited Disston on a Florida Black Bass fishing trip in 1877 • Founded the city of Sanford, Florida • Introduced many new varieties of oranges to Florida • Owned extensive amounts of land in St. Augustine and Sanford Henry Shelton Sanford

• Largest saw manufacturing company in world (Philadelphia) • 1877 sport fishing trip to Florida • In 1881, purchased 4 million acres in Kissimmee area • Stood to gain 12 million acres after draining • Connected Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico by dredging the Caloosahatchee River • Connected chain of lakes in the Kissimmee River Basin to Lake Okeechobee Hamilton Disston

Disston’s Saw Works Manufactured hand saws, files and hacksaws for the world

• Govenor in 1881 • State of Florida = $1 million in debt • Encouraged Disston to purchase 4 million Florida acres in order to bring people to live in Florida • With Disston’s land purchase, he erased the debt of IIF Govenor Bloxham

• Was elected Governor on the promise to create an "Empire of the Everglades, " by wringing the last drop of water out of that "pestilence-ridden swamp. " • Began Miami Canal • Began Everglades Drainage District in 1907 Napoleon Bonaparte Broward

• Started Tamiami Trail • Funded trail from the Miami side • First Ochopee postmaster Captain James Jaudon

• Funded western section of Tamiami Trail • Debate with Jaudon over Trail location • County named after him • Largest Florida land owner • Collier-Seminole State Park Barron Gift Collier

Construction of the Tamiami Trail

Construction of the Tamiami Trail

Florida Counties in 1921

Florida Counties Today

Loop Road The result of Collier and Jaudon

• • • Caloosahatchee River St. Lucie River Palm Beach Canal Hillsborough Canal New River Canal Miami Canals

Hurricanes of 1926 & 1928

Hurricanes of 1926 & 1928

Okeechobee Levee

Kissimmee River Project • • • Dredged Kissimmee River Channelization began in 1961 Finished in 1971 Was 50 miles wide

Miccosukee

Chickhee Huts

3 kinds of huts Social Huts Eating Huts Sleeping Huts

Aunt V’s House

Jay’s Oyster Bars

Snook

Benefits of Everglades Restoration

Problem and Solution