The post-war boom brought tens of thousands of people to the area and they’ve loved it so much that many of them never left. Naples reclaimed a lot of land from the swamp and a real estate boom started there in the late 1940s. While Fort Myers started as a military outpost, eventually becoming a civilian town as well by the 1860s, many of the other areas along the coast sprung up a lot later. This area was the last region of Florida to be connected to the rest of the United States by car and railroad, and was the last region to become urbanized.
Fort Myers and Naples are cities along the Southwest Florida coast, and the area is a mix of old and new.
