I find Florida history fascinating however. I think because so much of it has happened in the recent past, and Florida's landscape has changed so drastically right before my very eyes, even in the short time I've lived here.
So, this story goes...You see these short pilings left in the water (left pic). They're not too far from the hidden cove. They use to be a fish camp, and before that, they use to be an ice house, most likely built by the Punta Gorda Fish Company.
Well, at the time the fish camp became just the pilings they are now, the fish camp was supposedly privately owned by someone that didn't much like that fishermen were using a certain controversial size gill net for fishing. The day before the net ban was to go into effect, the fish camp owner was said to be standing at his fish camp telling all the gill net fishermen, "well, today's your last day boys" in a middle-finger-up kinda way. Well, not too long after that, the fish camp burned to the water.
so the story goes...
Some of these historical fish camps still exist. It seems many were likely built in the 1920s. Even the historical registers don't quite know the dates...
The controversial gill net ban went into effect via voter referendum in November 1994.
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