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MAP - 1860 Mitchell Map of North & South Carolina, Florid. Has a copyright date of 1860 in small print under the border (Copyrighted, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.), but this copy was published by Augustus Mitchell Jr. in 1865. It is an early map showing Fort Myers the city. Fort Myers itself was built on the burned ruins of Fort Harvie. The fort was named for Brevet Colonel Abraham Charles Myers, quartermaster for the Army's Department of Florida and future son-in-law of Major Twiggs. It covered about 139 acres , and soon had 57 buildings, including a two-story blockhouse that was pictured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and a 1,000-foot-long (300 m) wharf at which ships could dock. Irvin Solomon notes that Fort Myers was described "as 'one of the finest and largest' forts of the Seminole Wars". It was abandoned in 1858, at the end of the Third Seminole War. It was the only US fort named after a Jew.

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Arc.MS.56, Oversize Box 6, Folder 2