Cheap Car Hire Fort Myers : History to Fort Myers
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Hire Fort Myers : Ponce de Leon explored areas along Florida's Gulf coast
in 1513 & 1521. The barrier islands of Lee County are believed to be one of his
many stops. Spanish and Cuban settlers created temporary fishing and farming camps
along the coast, but for years Southwest Florida was a rugged and isolated area.
In the early 1700s the Lee Island coastline first appeared with some accuracy in
British maps. During the last half of the 1700s coastal areas of Lee County were
a base of operations for bands of pirates raiding the cargo ships sailing to and
from the port of New Orleans. Florida became a US Territory in 1821, and the ensuing
wave of settlers asked for protection from the native Seminoles.
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Hire Fort Myers : Cheap car rental fort myers was named
in honor of Colonel Abraham C. Myers, the son-in-law of the commander of Fort Brooke
in Tampa. The fort was abandoned in 1858 and reoccupied by Federal troops from 1863-1865.
The Southernmost battle of the Civil War, a skirmish between Northern and Southern
troops occurred across the river in 1865.
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