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Who lived in Lee and Collier counties 250 years ago?
Though it's not possible to say how many people lived in Southwest Florida 250 years ago, we have some ideas about who they were and how they lived.
It's impossible to say with certainty how many people were in Southwest Florida in 1776 and where they lived, says Tara Backhouse, curator of the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. "It’s not a well documented area at the time," she says. "It was mostly small indigenous or indigenous/ Spanish populations, because people did move between the west coast of Florida and Cuba fairly easily."
This is what was known about the region (from 10,000 Islands to Charlotte Harbor and to the east side of Lake Okeechobee) at the time of the Revolutionary War around 1776.
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