1953 Map of Brighton SW

About this map

Brighton Indian Reservation dominates the eastern landscape of this Florida interior region, showing the boundary lines and early developments at the edge of the Everglades. The map captures a transition in water management and land use, defined by the engineered Harney Pond Canal and the natural drainage of Gator Slough. Low-lying terrain like Sixmile Marsh and named rises such as Cabbage Island reveal the delicate topography of the northern Glades. Human intervention is evidenced by the prominent Spoil Bank and a lonely Windmill marking the cattle-ranching operations common to this era. This 1950s survey, updated with 1970s revisions, documents the early phases of canal construction and marsh drainage that reshaped the Central Florida wetlands.