by
Chris Wadsworth, Allison Fortuna, Bonita Springs Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
The pioneer history of Bonita Springs stretches back to the 1880s, when an Alabama cotton planter named B. B. Comer bought 6,000 acres of land along Surveyors Creek. He started a tropical fruit plantation, and his tiny village became known as Survey, in honor of the U.S. Army engineers who had first...