On January 5, 1921 Dr. Marshall Terry along with his wife Tootie McGregor-Terry donated several acres of privately owned land that had in its earliest days been a cow pasture and later the site of the Lee County Fair. (Later Southwest Florida Fair) Lee county government took formal possession of the land a mile east of the city of Fort Myers with the stipulation that “all property shall be used as a park and public property.” Using the specifications put ..
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