The pioneer history of Bonita Springs stretches back to the 1880s, when an Alabama cotton planter named B.
They quickly gave the communi.
When Florida started to boom in the early 20th century, investors bought up much of the land in the area.
Army engineers who had first surveyed the region during the Seminole Wars decades before.
He started a tropical fruit plantation, and his tiny village became known as Survey, in honor of the U.
S.
Comer bought 6,000 acres of land along Surveyors Creek.
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The pioneer history of Bonita Springs stretches back to the 1880s, when an Alabama cotton planter named B