Everglades City Florida home on a private island, (Club Everglades) for a one week stay during any of the following periods - March 4-16, April 8-30, 2018

Maximum of 6 people Value with cleaning fee and taxes $1,450

Minimum Bid $500

This private home has 2 master bedroom/bathrooms with queen beds with a fold out sofa sleeper in the living room. Large open kitchen living room area for having friends and

entertaining. A large screened in and furnished deck overlooking the Baron River, great place to enjoy refreshments after a long day of exploring. Internet and cable tv are also provided.

Private dock with shore power and fish cleaning station for boaters. Concierge to shuttle you back and forth from the island if you do not have a boat.

This area boasts great fishing, bird watching, shelling or simply watching the dolphins play. There are many guides available in the area for all of the above if you desire.

The island association has a great clubhouse with exercise equipment, pool, and spacious seating for get togethers.

Owner Bob Krenn contact info: bobkrenn3@gmail Mobile#: 269-207-7483

Everglades City, Florida Coordinates: 25°51′32″N 81°23′5″WCoordinates: 25°51′32″N 81°23′5″W

Located near Florida’s southern tip and southeast of Naples, Everglades City is known as the gateway to Ten Thousand Islands. Canoe the mangrove tunnels. Take a fishing and backcountry excursion. Hike through the Big Cypress National Preserve near Everglades City. And try not to miss the Everglades Seafood Festival, a taste of Florida as it used to be. Generally held in February, the festival is as laid-back as a day on the river, yet as lively as a tune on the banjo. It's as real as gators in the Everglades City swamp. It’s a place to snag a seat on a carnival ride, relax with the family and raise a mug of suds to the stars – and, of course, sample sumptuous Everglades City seafood, fresh and firm and perfect. Everglades City (formerly known as Everglades) is in Collier County, As of the 2013 census, the population is 402. It is part of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Gulf Coast Visitor Center for Everglades National Park is in Everglades City.

It is at the mouth of the Barron River, on Chokoloskee Bay. Chokoloskee Bay is approximately ten miles long and 2 miles wide, and runs southeast to northwest along the mainland of Collier County. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands.

Everglades City has a tropical savanna climate, which consists of warm dry winters and hot humid summers with heavy rain.

History The area around Chokoloskee Bay, including the site of Everglades City, was occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans of the Glades culture, who were absorbed by the Calusa shortly before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, but by the time Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821, the area was uninhabited. A legend says that Seminoles planted potatoes along what is now the Barron River during the Seminole Wars, in the vicinity of the present Everglades City.

American settlement began after the Civil War, when Union sympathizers who had farmed on Cape Sable to supply Key West during the war moved up the west coast of the peninsula. The first permanent settler was William Smith Allen, who arrived on the banks of Potato Creek (later renamed the Allen River) in 1873. After Allen retired to Key West in 1889, George W. Storter, Jr. became the principal landowner in the area. Storter gained fame for his sugar cane crops. He opened a trading post in 1892, and gained a post office, called "Everglade", in 1895. Storter also began entertaining northern tourists who came to Everglade by yacht in the winter to hunt and fish. His house eventually grew into the Rod and Gun Club, visited by United States Presidents and other notables.

The first school in Everglade was organized in 1893. The school moved into a new building in 1895, but the building was destroyed by a tornado later in the year. The next school building was washed away by the 1910 hurricane. A Methodist circuit rider began visiting Everglade in 1888, and a Methodist minister became resident the next year, but he left after four years. After that Everglade was occasionally visited by itinerant preachers of various denominations. The Episcopal Church established a mission at Immokalee which eventually moved to Everglade when revitalized in the 1930s by Harriet Bedell.

In 1922 Barron Collier began buying large areas of land in what was then southern Lee County. In 1923 the Florida legislature created Collier County from Lee County, with the county seat at Everglade. The town was incorporated the same year as "Everglades" (adding the "s"). The town consisted of only a dozen families at the time, but some northern sportsmen had established winter homes there.

The Tamiami Trail, which crossed Collier's domain, passed five miles north of Everglades City. While construction was proceeding on the Trail (it was completed in 1929), Collier pushed construction of what became State Road 29 from Everglades City to Immokalee, providing the town with its first land connection to the rest of the state. In 1928, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad began service to Everglades City, which became the southernmost point the Coast Line ever reached. Service was provided by an extension of the Coast Line's Haines City branch from Immokalee to Deep Lake, where it connected to Collier's Deep Lake Railroad, an earlier railroad that transported agricultural freight. The railroad was removed in 1957. In 1965, the state legislature changed the town's name to Everglades City.