1974 Map of Chokoloskee

About this map

Chokoloskee Island and Plantation Island emerge as primary points of human habitation within this sprawling estuarine landscape in the mid-1970s. The map captures the meeting of land and water at the edge of Everglades National Park, where the Turner River and the Turner River Canal empty into the tangled mangrove systems of the Ten Thousand Islands. This orthophotomap format preserves a unique look at the coastal development occurring just north of the Chokoloskee Bay, showing the dense grid of a Trailer Park and a small Cem on the island. Further south, the map details the labyrinthine waterways of Cross Bays and Sunday Bay, reaching down to the Lopez area and its Lopez Campsite. Names like Hells Half Acre and Rabbit Key highlight the character of this remote Florida Gulf Coast environment.