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Everglades Drainage District
the state's drainage machine
- Founded
- 1907 to 1949
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Place
- the Everglades basin
- District
- The Glades
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Defunct; its canals pass to the flood control district of 1949.
- Connections
- 5 edges, 5 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.037 (rank 38 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.046 (rank 12) · outside share 0.20
- Confidence
- High · sources: [PBCH3] [SJH] [WDRAIN] (register)
The state forms the district in 1907 under Governor Broward's reclamation program; five great canals from the lake to the Atlantic and 440 miles of works by 1929 create the farmland the Glades towns stand on [PBCH3][SJH][WDRAIN].
Connections
Location and lineage
- foundedCanal Pointthe West Palm Beach Canal creates the point and names the community1910s
- grew out ofDisston purchase and drainage worksstate drainage institutionalizes what Disston began1881 to 1907
- becamePahokeedistrict canals drain the muck the city is founded on1907 onward
- becameSouth Baythe North New River Canal of 1912 brings the first settlers1907 onward
- becameSouth Florida Water Management Districtthe drainage works pass to the flood control district1907 to 1949