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Everglades surveying crew with tall poles, 1913
Crew of men in everglades, wearing hats and kerchiefs, smoking pipes. Three long poles are arranged in a point. Surveying equipment nearby.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer. -
The Henderson brothers, everglades surveying crew members, 1913
Three men in hats, part of the team surveying the everglades. The Henderson brothers, Randall, Bill, and Bud.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer.
Published in Lawrence E. Will's book Okeechobee Catfishing (Glade Historical Society, 1965), p. 141, with the caption: "The Henderson Brothers, Rand, Bill and Bud, while on the George B. Hills Survey Party through the Everglades from West Palm Beach to Canal Point in 1913. Bill was one for the Possemen killed by the Rice Gang at Jewfish Bridge in 1916." -
Everglades surveying crew member, 1913
Man in hat, carrying equipment, wading and pushing his boat in the everglades.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer. -
Everglades surveying crew group portrait, 1913
Crew of team surveying the everglades in hats and kerchiefs.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer.
Published in Lawrence E. Will's book, A Cracker History of Okeechobee (Great Outdoors Publishing, 1978), p. 96, with the caption "The Survey Crew, George B. Hills in center (with beard and boots). Second from left is Bill Henderson, killed at Jewfish Bridge while trying to Capture the Rice Gang after their robbery of the bank at Homestead." -
Everglades surveying crew group portrait, 1913
Crew of team surveying the everglades in hats and kerchiefs.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer. -
Everglades surveying crew poling boats, 1913
Crew of team surveying the everglades in hats and kerchiefs.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer. -
Picnic of tea and sandwiches, c. 1925
Several women and men eating and drinking at a table outdoors. -
Family camp, c. 1900
Woman, six children, two men with horses and rifles near a tent. -
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