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City of Naples & Collier County Quiz answers appear below.
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City of Naples Quiz
How many did you get correct? 

1.) Who is credited for founding the City of Naples?
Walter Haldeman

2.) When was the original Naples Pier built?
1888

3.) How long did Speed Menefee, the City's first Mayor, serve?
15 Minutes

4.) What family donated the land at Cambier Park?
The Watkins Family

5.) Who was the City's longest running Mayor?
Roy Smith

6.) In 1948, a unique non for profit was established for the City of Naples which allowed
for the town's improvement. What was it called?
The Naples Plan

7.) What are the boundaries of the Historic District in the City?
9th Ave. South to 13th Ave. South to the Gulf to 3rd Street South.

8.) Who is the first official City Hisorian?
Doris Reynolds

9.) When did Hurricane Donna hit the City of Naples
September 10, 1960

10.) Who rebuilt the Pier at their own expense after Hurricane Donna and again in 1970
when the new pilings began to rot?
Lester and Dellora Norris

11.) What two skills did Deaconess Bedell bring back to the Seminols?
Basket Weaving and Doll Making

12.) What street does this building sit on today?
Third Street South

13.) This tree was planted in 1916, some say 1919. Who planted it? What corner does
it sit on today? Bonus Question: What long gone building is behind Beardy Banyon
faintly scene in the background?
Planted by N.P Sloan located on the corner of 12th Street South and Gordon.
Old Naples Hotel in the background.

14.) This bus trip was from where to where? What was the big deal with 1928?
Tampa to Miami. The Tamiami trail was opened in 1928.

15.) This 1948 photo depicts a well known corner in the City of Naples. What is the
corner called? What two main roads make this intersetion?
The Four Corners. South Tamiami Trail to East Tamiami - 5th Avenue runs West.

16.) The name of Collier County Professional Development Building on 3rd Ave. South and
6th Street is named after this beloved school teacher.
Leila Cannant

17.) The Gordon Pass area was settled by Roger Gordon in the late 1870's. What are the
correct names of the areas to the North and South of Gordon Pass?
Port Royal and Key Island*   (yep - we corrected this)

18.) Who are these two oldtimers who lived in Aqualine Shores?
Jim Goddard & Ernie Mozic

19.) Who was the Captain of the Bon Temps? Where did it travel to and from? Its purpose
was served until 1915. What change occurred to make her not needed as much?
Captain Charles Stewart. Traveled from Ft. Myers to Naples until a road was opened
from Fort Myers to Naples.

20.) THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE NAPLES BACKYARD HISTORY QUIZ. WE HOPE YOU
LEARNED SOMETHING NEW AND LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS.

Collier County History Quiz
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1.)    Barron Gift Collier derived his fortunes from street car advertising and other interest.  Where was he born?
Memphis

2.)    Collier first got  "sand in his shoes" when he visited Useppa Island.  In 1921 he bought a grove and a railroad in the area known as ________ located on what road?
Deep Lake on HWY 29

3.)    There is another Collier family that settled in this area in the late 1880's. (no relations)  The settlement was called Collier City.  What is this settlement called today?
Marco Island

4.)    The man on the left is Dick Jay, Everglades Folk Artist.  He met Capt. John Morgan, on the left, on May 1, at the NBYH Mini Museum.   Dick, who is an avid fisherman, has created replicas of the Calusa Masks excavated by John Cushing, Smithsonian Archaeologist, in 1896.   Capt. John, who built over 500 boats in this area, is the nephew of Capt. Bill Collier, who built the Old Marco Inn (no relation to Barron).   What would these two "old timers" most likely be talking about after their introduction?
Calusa Masks discovered by Bill Collier, John Morgan's Uncle

5.)    Tommy Barfield was known as the Queen of Marco who?
Lobbied for the formation of Collier County.

6.)    What family is considered to be the founders of Everglades City?
Storter

7.)    What area in Collier County has the highest elevation?
Immokalee

8.)    Immokalee is Seminole for?
My Home

9.)    Everglades City was the county seat until what event changed it to Naples?
After a referendum in 1959 when the voters decided on East Naples.

10.)    The Tamiami Trail was equated to the building of the Panama Canal - only smaller.  Who was given the  "honor" of engineering this feat?
David Graham Copeland

11.)    Edward H. Frank is the inventor of the Swamp Buggy.  Before the need for a Swamp Buggy, Ed needed something to climb the California Mountains to go hunting.  What was the forerunner to the Swamp Buggy called?
Skeetor Buggy

12.)    Before Collier became independent on May 8, 1923, Collier County was part of what County?
Lee

13.)    Deaconess Bedell is know for her relentless work on behalf of the Seminoles after her work in Alaska.  In 1933 she reopened the Glades Cross Mission which was subsidized by the...
Collier Development Company

14.)    This bus trip was from where to where?  What was the big deal with 1928?
Tampa to Miami.  This was the year the Tamiami Trail opened.

15.)    Who is known as the Father of the Everglades?
Ernest Coe

16.)    Who said, "Water is the key to the Everglades."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

17.)    Which community once supported two clam factories?
Marco Island

18.)    What family's proactive initiatives saved Rookery Bay, Big Cypress Bend, and Delnor Wiggin Park? (Hint - they also repaired the Naples Pier twice to save the citizens the cost.)
The Norris Family

19.)    Collier County has approximately what percent of her land under conservation?
70 percent

20.)    Thank you for taking the NBYH County Quiz.  We hope you realize just how important history is to the community!  Let's make history more fun, more available and more meaningful!    

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Beardy Banyan 92 Years Old

The Oldest Banyan in the City of Naples




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