George W. Storter Jr.

His grandfather George Sr. migrated in a covered wagon to Platt, Florida, from Eutaw, Alabama in 1877, making his first trip to the Everglades in September 1881 to farm with one William S.

They also operated a trading post where Seminoles came to barter or sell deer hides and alligator skins.

[1][3] William Smith Allen, who gave the Barron River its name until 1923, was the first permanent white settler of Everglade.

[1] Originally from Connecticut, he eventually moved to Jacksonville, and with the outbreak of war he, with other Unionists, went to Key West.

[1] "But the real founder of Everglades and its most influential citizen for over a quarter of a century was George W. Storter Jr."[1] A site called Port DuPont along the Barron river was settled by African-American August Swycover and his wife.