How people lived, worked, and crossed the lagoon before modern Florida
The lagoon's oldest industry â from the Ais, through the golden age of fish houses, through collapse, to today's regulated fishery.
Traps, crab houses, and the last working commercial fishery on the Indian River Lagoon.
The cast net, the smokehouse, the mullet run, and a tradition that goes back to the Ais â still alive today.
The Greek sponge divers of Tarpon Springs â brass helmets, the sponge docks, and a Mediterranean culture on the Gulf Coast.
From Ais dugout canoes to settlers' skiffs to paddle-wheel steamboats to modern causeways â how each crossing technology changed the coast.
The Cracker house, the deep porch, the sleeping porch, and the icebox â how people survived Florida summers for hundreds of years.
The Homestead Act, clearing the pines, the self-sufficient cabin life, and the citrus groves that built Brevard County.
