Indigenous peoples, maritime heritage, and the stories that shaped Florida's waters
The Timucua, Calusa, Tequesta, and Apalachee peoples and their deep relationship with Florida's waterways and estuaries.
Seminole Wars, Everglades lifeways, and modern tribal conservation efforts.
The 1715 and 1733 Spanish plate fleets, the wrecking industry, and modern underwater archaeology.
Keepers, shipwreck rescues, and the role lighthouses played in protecting Florida's coast.
Wreckers, sponging, the cigar industry, and the maritime culture of the Florida Keys.
Henry Flagler, the Overseas Railroad, and how railroads shaped Florida's east coast.
Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, and the environmental restoration around the Merritt Island spaceport.
Early 1900s canal projects and the long road to restoration.
The abandoned mega-project that became the Marjorie Harris Carr Greenway — a conservation win.
The 1928 Okeechobee, 1935 Labor Day, Donna, and Andrew storms that reshaped Florida.
The rise and decline of a historic fishery and what it teaches us about estuary health.
A once-major Gulf port and its transformation into a model of sustainable ecotourism.
Ghost towns, lost citrus communities, and places moved for the space program — and how nature reclaimed them.
When the lagoon was the highway — and the ghost pilings that still stand in the water today.
From riverfront settlement to railroad boomtown to revived historic village on the lagoon.
Peter Knight's dream of a lagoon city that stayed small — and why that matters.
A planned city that never got built — and how thousands of empty lots became wild scrub and a land-use lesson.
Ferries, wooden causeways, and the old Eau Gallie swing bridge — and why replacing them helped the lagoon.
The pioneer families, the Homestead Act, and the hard frontier life that built every town on the lagoon.
When the lagoon was citrus country, the Great Freezes of 1894–95, and the legacy that survives today.
From the Ais people to NASA — the lagoon's extraordinary human history and conservation story.
12,000 years of fishing culture — from indigenous cast-netters to the 1994 net ban and today's sport fishery.
