Ted Smallwood opened a trading post in 1906 in Chokoloskee, a small island in the Ten Thousand Islands offshore from the Everglades. For decades the store was reachable only by boats. Today a long bridge connects Chokoloskee to the mainland.
Smallwood Store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and stayed open until1982.
Ted Smallwood's granddaughter opened it as a museum in the 1990s. She was behind the counter this week when I visited. Chokoloskee's population is below 400.
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