Notes and transcripts relating to the King survey and Hamilton Disston's drainage and sugar plantation projects(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.; (Biographical) Lost in the Everglades describes a 1917 expedition to the Jaudon property (Hopkins Tract), led by surveyor J. W. King. The other documents relate to Hamilton Disston, who attempted to drain the north Everglades, 1881-1896.
1920
Papers relating to Tamiami Trail construction(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.
1926
Papers relating to drainage and the proposed Tamiami Railway(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.
1918
Photographs depicting Forward to the Soil publicity event, February 5, 1927.From Photographs : series 30.; The Miami Chamber of Commerce staged a publicity event, Forward to the Soil, to promote sales of reclaimed land, and which took place on the Roselawn Tract, near Hialeah. Without tribal consent, Musa Isle headman Tony Tommie participated in the ceremony, made peace and handed over the Everglades to whites. The rest of the tribe and the U.S. government did recognize his actions.