The Bay City Walking Dredge
My husband & I were out driving around parts of Florida we had never been to before. When we saw a sign along the highway, Collier-Seminole State Park, we turned in not knowing what we would find. Boy, did we get a huge and unexpected surprise! See the series of images that follows to see what we discovered!
"In the early 20th century, effort was made to build a roadway across the vast expanse of Big Cypress and the Everglades. This effort was begun but was ended because of World War One and funding needed elsewhere. In the 1920's the state of Florida asked Barron Collier, a wealthy advertising entrepreneur and pioneer developer, to help fund and complete building of the Tamiami Trail. It was a monumental engineering feat to build the roadbed between Naples and Miami but was finally completed in 1928.
Inside the park is the Bay City Walking Dredge, used to construct the roadway that now passes by the front entrance of the park. In 1994 this now-silent machine was designated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark."
Collier-Seminole State Park.
The Bay City Walking Dredge
My husband & I were out driving around parts of Florida we had never been to before. When we saw a sign along the highway, Collier-Seminole State Park, we turned in not knowing what we would find. Boy, did we get a huge and unexpected surprise! See the series of images that follows to see what we discovered!
"In the early 20th century, effort was made to build a roadway across the vast expanse of Big Cypress and the Everglades. This effort was begun but was ended because of World War One and funding needed elsewhere. In the 1920's the state of Florida asked Barron Collier, a wealthy advertising entrepreneur and pioneer developer, to help fund and complete building of the Tamiami Trail. It was a monumental engineering feat to build the roadbed between Naples and Miami but was finally completed in 1928.
Inside the park is the Bay City Walking Dredge, used to construct the roadway that now passes by the front entrance of the park. In 1994 this now-silent machine was designated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark."
Collier-Seminole State Park.