Chevelier, Florida was a community in which plans started in 1916 by James F. Jaudon, a Miami businessman.

At the time during the early 20th century, many commercial developers such as Jaudon sought to drain and use it as an agricultural area.

An advertisement map states that it had a half a million acres of land, 148,000,000 feet of timber that existed on the tract it was on.

[2] The Tamiami Trail was being proposed at the time which would help his city to develop he got very involved in the construction of it.

When the trail was completed in 1928, there was not as large of an amount of development as expected and the Chevelier Corporation declared bankruptcy in 1937.