George W. Storter Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1862
Place of Birth: Eutaw, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 26-Oct-1931
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About George W. Storter Jr.
- George Washington Storter Jr.
- (July 1, 1862 – October 26, 1931) was a trader and founder of Everglades City.
- His grandfather George Sr.
- migrated in a covered wagon to Platt, Florida, from Eutaw, Alabama in 1877, making his first trip to the Everglades in September 1881 to farm with one William S.
- Allen.George Jr.
- purchased large tracts of land further south along Chokoloskee Bay and founded the town of Everglade, later to become Everglades City, in 1893.
- From there the family shipped buttonwood, cane syrup, and grapefruits to Tampa.
- They also operated a trading post where Seminoles came to barter or sell deer hides and alligator skins.
- George Storter Jr.
- became famous for the sugar cane he grew.
- His main competition came from Ted Smallwood of the Ted Smallwood Store. Settlements start in Chokoloskee Bay of Collier County, Florida, along the Barron River.
- The American Civil War saw many Union refugees flee the Confederate state of Florida for Key West, still a member of the Union.
- As population increased, officials at Key West gave some of them tools, seeds and supplies for purposes of gardening at Cape Sable and on some of the Keys.
- John Weeks was one of these, and the first to settle on the Barron River c.
- 1861.
- William Smith Allen, who gave the Barron River its name until 1923, was the first permanent white settler of Everglade.
- Originally from Connecticut, he eventually moved to Jacksonville, and with the outbreak of war he, with other Unionists, went to Key West.
- Allen first visited Weeks in 1868 and was impressed by the soil.
- He then returned, owning all of the present-day Everglade township along the river from 1873 to 1889.
- "But the real founder of Everglades and its most influential citizen for over a quarter of a century was George W.
- Storter Jr."A site called Port DuPont along the Barron river was settled by African-American August Swycover and his wife.
- They planted sugar cane along the west bank of the river.
- Swycover shipped the sugar to Key West, used in those days for chewing.
- By 1883, George Sr.
- established himself opposite the Port DuPont site.
- By 1887, George W.
- Storter Jr.
- and Nancy arrived; and on January 1, 1889, the first white child was born in the Everglade.
- A miss Frances Eva Storter, Neal's older sister.
- After Allen's death, George W.
- Storter Jr.
- purchased all the Allen property for $800.
- In 1895 he secured the first post office first called Everglade with him as postmaster.
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