book references
Carr, Robert S. Digging Miami. University Press of Florida, 2012.
Peters, Thelma. Biscayne Country, 1870-1926. Banyan Books, 1981.
Peters, Thelma. Lemon City: Pioneering on Biscayne Bay, 1850-1925. Banyan Books, 1976.
Peters, Thelma. Miami 1909: With Excerpts from Fannie Clemons’ Diary. Banyan Books, 1984.
Simpson, Charles Torrey. In Lower Florida Wilds; a Naturalist’s Observations on the Life, Physical Geography, and Geology of the More Tropical Part of the State. G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1920. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Torrey_Simpson
McVoy, Christopher W., Winifred Park Said, Jayantha Obeysekera, Joel Van Arman, and Thomas Dreschel. Landscapes and Hydrology of the Predrainage Everglades. University Press of Florida, 2011.