Although best known as the winter home of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, Fort Myers has one of the most engaging and extraordinary histories of any city in Florida.
New York cartoonist Walt McDougall blew into the area on a fishing trip, and his glowing description l.
During the Civil War, it became a battleground between Confederates and Yankees for cattle and, after the war, a gun-slinging cowboy town.
Army post during Florida\'s Seminole Wars.
The spawn of a hurricane, Fort Myers began as a U.
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Although best known as the winter home of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, Fort Myers has one of the most engaging and extraordinary histories of any city in Florida