Collier County FL

Muspa Culture, Key Marco and other Platform Villages

Key Marco

A cluster of islands on the Gulf Coast of Florida, immediately south of Naples, FL and southwest of Lake Okeechobee once held numerous mounds and town sites. Know as the Ten Thousand Islands Region, it contains the villages and mounds of an unidentified Archaic Period people, the Muspa Culture and the Calusa People, who absorbed the Muspa. The Muspa or Thousand Islands Culture in recent years has been considered a division of the Lake Okeechobee-Glades Culture. The oldest cluster of shell mounds, on what was formerly called Horr’s Island, date as far back as 4700 BC. Another mound there contains … Read more

Rhodes, Elizabeth “Beth” Fisher Mrs. – Obituary

Elizabeth “Beth” Rhodes, 85, of Marco Island, Florida, died June 7, 2000. She was a former Haines resident, the daughter of Lena Maxwell and Callie Fisher and a graduate of Linfield College in McMinnville. She was a staff sergeant in the Women’s Army Corps during WWII. She is survived by a devoted husband, John, of 53 years; daughter Susan Rhodes of Seattle; step-daughter, Sally Rickert of Boulder, Colorado; and a brother John Fisher of Haines. John Rhodes generously donated the necessary funds to complete the cost of construction of the new wing of the Art League building in Marco Island, … Read more