The dredge "Barcamil" under construction at Port DuPont with  the work crew on the right. Dated August 1926.

Parts and supply warehouses at Carnestown during the Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Advance Base for Emergency Supplies at Carnestown." Photograph taken c1927.

The cypress swamp along the proposed route of the Tamiami Trail. Originally captioned "The Everglades. Typical section of country through which the Trail passes." Photograph taken c1925.

Aerial view of Everglades City, looking from westerly direction and showing Port DuPont and the Barron River. Photograph taken during the Tamiami Trail opening celebration.

Four workmen pulling a loaded dynamite cart over a makeshift log tramway during the construction of the Tamiami Trail. Originally captioned "Munitions to the Front. Across the Bogs of the Big Cypress through which neither man nor beast may walk."

First day cover commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Tamiami Trail in 1988. 

Four man clearing crew standing by a large cypress stump during construction work on the Tamiami Trail, c1926.

Austin Western grader doing fine grading work on a section of the Tamiami Trail, c1928.

30-ton drilling car, boring holes for dynamite charges during Tamiami Trail construction, c1926.

Workers unloading machinery and equipment for Tamiami Trail construction iin Everglades City, c1926.

Collier-Seminole State Park ranger's house, 1990.

Side view of the 30-ton drill car at work on the Tamiami Trail, boring holes in the limestone bed rock for charges of dynamite, c1926.

Woman who helped Mrs. Meece Ellis in lunchroom and at service station along Tamiami Trail, holding handle of gravity feed pump.  Meece Ellis, Jr. stands on left filling radiator of toy trailer with watering can.  Photo taken c1939-1940. 

Meece Ellis Sr. worked for the Barron Collier Company in Everglades on the first dredge they bought to build the Tamiami Trail. 

Collier County Board of County Commissioners proclamation designating Sunday, April 24, 1988 as the 60th anniversary celebration of the Tamiami Trail.  The Tamiami Trail officially opened in the State of Florida on April 25, 1928. 

Done and ordered on November 24, 1987.  Signed by Arnold Lee Glass, Chairman and attested by James C. Giles, Clerk.

Royal Palm Hammock restaurant, c1945.

View of the sawmill (left) and worker's quarters (right) at Sunniland which supplied lumber for bridges and buildings during construction of the Tamiami Trail and Immokalee Road.  Shows rail line in foreground, c1927.

Side view of a Marion Floating Dredge at work on the Tamiami Trail.  Shows outriggers extended, dredge straddling canal, and boom and bucket in operation, c1926.

A row of portable bunkhouses used by workmen during the Tamiami Trail construction, parked on the graded roadbed with the canal to the left. Originally captioned "The Camp on Wheels. Following close behind the Skimmer." Photograph taken c1926.

An explosion from a charge of dynamite, used to blast out bedrock during the Tamiami Trail/Immokalee Road construction. There is a wooden tramway on the left for transporting supplies. Originally captioned "Boom! 600 Ibs. 60% nitroglycerine dynamite dislodges solid rock stratum underlying Big Cypress Bogs." Photograph taken c1927.

A Caterpillar tractor pulling an Austin Western scarifier, Number 20, during road grading operations for the Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "14-foot Grader. Rough grades."