Islamorada / Brad Bertelli and Jerry Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertelli, Brad., Author.

United States. National Ocean Service.

Wilkinson, Jerry., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamorada (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works.

Islamorada (Fla.).

Islamorada (Fla.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Fishing--Florida--Islamorada--Maps.

Fishing.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, maps

Scale 1:100,000. (W 81⁰00ʹ--W 80⁰00ʹ/N 25⁰00ʹ--N 24⁰30ʹ)

Cartographic Data:

Scale 1:100,000. (W 81⁰00ʹ--W 80⁰00ʹ/N 25⁰00ʹ--N 24⁰30ʹ)

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, [2014]

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet from the NGDC NOAA web site. Address as of 5/21/07: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/maps/finals/L-183/L-183.pdf; current access via PURL.

Summary:

The name Islamorada came to fruition after Henry Flager's engineer, William Krome, purchased 15 acres of Upper Matecumbe property in 1907. When he registered his parcel as a town site, he called it Isla Morada. A faded newspaper clipping, with May 7, 1907, handwritten in the far right corner, reported: "On the northern end of Upper Matecumbe Key a new town known as Isla Morada has sprung into existence ... It is believed that Isla Morada will become an important tourist stopping place in winter as the location is beautiful and the fishing convenient and excellent." Today, Islamorada refers to a collection--a community--of islands that includes Plantation, Windley, Upper Matecumbe and Lower Matecumbe Keys, as well as two islands designated as state parks, Indian Key and Lignumvitae Key. While Islamorada has always been known for its fishing, these islands boast some serious history, too.

Notes:

Depths shown by isolines and soundings.

Title from title screen (viewed on May 21, 2007).

"Corrected meters."

"Not to be used for navigation."

"L-183."

OCLC:

900733349