Event Details
Saturday, Apr 25, 2015
Tamiami Trail Celebration
Time: 10:00 am til 3:00 pm
Location: Museum of the Everglades, Everglades City
Description: The Tamiami Trail is no ordinary road. Finished in 1928, the narrow strip of highway cut across one of the most inaccessible and remote parts of the country and joined Florida’s east and west coasts for the first time in history. Join us in celebrating the 87th anniversary of the completion of Florida’s Appian Way with a motorcade of antique automobiles, and a full day of educational programs and activities in Everglades City, Collier County’s original county seat. Sponsored by the Friends of the Museum of the Everglades. event will be helf from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, please call (239) 695-0008.
Event Schedule:
10am- 11am: Historic Walking Tour of Everglades City led by the Friends of Museum of the Everglades.
11am – Noon: Lecture “The Tamiami Trial and Other Projects of Profound and Unintended Consequence: The Archaeology of How Humans Have Shaped the Southwest Florida Landscape” by Melissa Timo, Florida Public Archaeology Network, SW Region in the Carol Mossman Lecture Hall.
Noon: Lunch, Birthday Cake and Live Music Sponsored by the Friends of the Museum of the Everglades
1:30pm- 2:30pm: “Everglades Area Memories”~ Come find out wh
FPAN is participating in this event.
