Along the way, meet the hardy and colorful folk – the cattlemen, clam diggers, trail blazers, plume hunters, hermits, loggers, railroaders, rum runners, Crackers and Indian traders – who wrote the pioneer history of Collier County. Trace America’s little-known wars in South Florida, the heroic journey of the Seminole people, and the origins behind traditional crafts like patchwork, once laboriously stitched together on hand-cranked sewing machines.Įxhibits also explore the daily lives – and utter isolation – of early settlers and their families as they arrived on this watery frontier a hundred years ago and the vision of a self-made multi-millionaire who dreamed of taming a wilderness swampland the size of Delaware. See ancient tools and ceremonial masks and dig up the facts about the Calusa Indian civilization that flourished here. Stalk prehistoric mastodons with Florida’s first big-game hunters, or travel even further back in time, when colossal sharks cruised the warm tropical seas that once covered Southwest Florida. Nestled on five acres of native Florida landscaping, the Collier Museum at Government Center offers exhibits and galleries that capture the full panorama of local history.
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