Collier County Museums Historic Photo Archive | Naples, FL | 1920's Immokalee Road Project

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A rough graded roadbed for Immokalee Road with a 40 ft. drainage canal on the right, Tamiami Trail construction. Originally Captioned "40-Foot Drainage Canal with 28-foot Highway and A.C.L. RR alongside."

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A rough graded section of Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. Drainage canal on left. The steel gang on the far right can be seen laying rails for A.C.L. Railroad. Originally captioned "Immokalee Road During Construction."

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A 3 1/2-cubic yard Marion dredge with 110-foot boom extended, mounding up fill for road bed and railroad embankment on Immokalee Road project during Tamiami Trail construction. Wooden tramway on left for transporting supplies. Original caption on reverse reads "Marion dredge builds Highway and Railroad Embankment."

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A graded roadbed for Immokalee Road (left) stretching off into the distance and running parallel to finished track to Immokalee, during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Highway and Railroad. Paralleling for 40 miles."

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A group of workers gathered in front of a repair shop used during the Immokalee Road/Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Behind the lines. Repair shops for Immokalee Operations."c1927

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A Bay City skimmer scoop machine leveling piles of rock and fill material produced by dredges into a rough grade for the Immokalee Road project during the Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Skimmer Scoop on Immokalee Road."c1927

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A rough graded section of Immokalee Road (left) during the construction of the Tamiami Trail, with a drainage canal, and emergency dam (right foreground) built in the summer of 1927. Originally captioned "Site of Emergency Dam. During extreme drought in the summer of 1927, it was necessary to dam road and resort to pumps to float giant dredge." Duplicate of 88.42.73

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A rough graded section of Immokalee Road (left) during the construction of the Tamiami Trail, with a drainage canal and emergency dam (right, foreground) built in the summer of 1927. Originally captioned "Immokalee Road."

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A pile driver and work crew setting wooden piles for a bridge on Immokalee Road during the construction of the Tamiami Trail. The canal can be seen to the right. Originally captioned "Pile Driver Working on Bridges on Immokalee Road".

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Pile driver and work crew setting wooden piles for bridge on Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. Canal can be seen on the right. Originally captioned "Bridge Gang. Driving piles for Highway Bridge."

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Shows a drover with a team of oxen hauling barrels of gasoline through a cypress prairie during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Transporting Gasoline by oxen on Immokalee Road."

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Explosion from a charge of dynamite, used to blast out bedrock during Tamiami Trail and Immokalee Road construction. There is a wooden tramway on the left for transporting supplies. Originally captioned "Blasting in Big Marsh-Immokalee Road."

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Rough graded roadbed for Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. Pile driver (center) is at work in the distance. Originally captioned "Beginning 500 foot bridge in the Big Cypress". Dated 1927.

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Rough graded roadbed for Immokalee Road with a 40-foot drainage canal on the right, during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "View along Immokalee Road during construction."

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A dragline sinking to one side and bogged down in the swamp during Tamiami Trail construction, Immokalee Road project. Two workmen are crouching by the front tracks. Originally captioned "Drag line in muck on Immokalee Road."

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Blasting crew in cypress swamp standing by before a charge of dynamite is detonated during the Tamiami Trail construction, Immokalee Road project. Originally captioned "Big Marsh, Immokalee Road."

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A solitary automobile traveling along a fine graded section of Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. Finished track for A.C.L. Railroad can be seen on the left, stretching off into the distance. Originally captioned "Immokalee Road. Central Route to the North through Collier County where three means of transportation parallel each other on a single right of way only 150 feet wide."

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A rough graded roadbed for Immokalee Road with a 40-foot drainage canal on the right, during the construction of the Tamiami Trail. Originally captioned "Immokalee Road During Construction."

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A rough graded roadbed for Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. There is a pile driver (center) at work in the distance. Originally captioned "Immokalee Road During Construction".

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A solitary automobile traveling along fine graded section of Immokalee Road during Tamiami Trail construction. The caption reads "This view six miles south Immokalee in 1927 shows the highway and railroad built through the center of Collier County by Barron G. Collier."

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