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EVERGLADES ROADS

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The Model Land Company built Ingraham Highway from Florida City through Royal Palm State Park to Flamingo in 1916-1922. The rock/mud road was nearly impassable until the Park Service rerouted and rebuilt it after 1947.

Ingraham Highway, 1929.

HMSF, Claude Matlack Collection. 151-50

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