Moore Haven: platted 1915 by a Seattle developer on the lake's southwest shore (Glades County, 1915 to 2020)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1915 · Places: Florida, Central America
SUMMARYMoore Haven: platted 1915 by a Seattle developer on the lake's southwest shore (Glades County, 1915 to 2020) [Connections: Miami & Lake Okeechobee, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDJames A. Moore of Seattle founded the town in 1915 and began platting on arrival; incorporated 1917; first sited where the lake meets the Caloosahatchee Canal ("Little Chicago"); Marian Newhall Horwitz, elected 1917, was the first woman mayor in Florida and south of the Mason-Dixon line; county seat of Glades County. Non-Hispanic Black residents were 25.73% of 1,566 people in 2020 (24.23% in 2010; 22.32% in 2000)
PATTERNThe town that sits on the Mayaimi shore was founded by an outside land developer about 80 years after the Battle of Okeechobee; today about a quarter of it is Black
LENS (WW9)Platted in 1915 on land that was the lake people's for 2,000 years
OPENWhat the land title chain says before 1915 (state swamp-land grants, Disston purchase) needs deep research