Description
Despite the fact that just about 7 million folks are living along the southeast Florida coast, scarcely three generations ago it was once a wild, lawless frontier ruled by bears, snakes and alligators. But if a lighthouse was once built at Jupiter Inlet in 1860, it become the hub for hunters, surveyors, Civil War blockade runners, Union gunboats and pioneer farmers. A Light within the Wilderness, with over seventy rare photos, maps and letters, tells how southeast Florida survived the catharsis of the Civil War, how the lighthouse at Jupiter drew the primary families into its orbit, and the way it become a key link within the steamboat-railroad path that led folks to the Garden of Eden.