You’ll find Fort Denaud 27 miles east of Fort Myers along State Road 78A, where a 1963 swing bridge crosses the Caloosahatchee River at mile marker 108.2. Weathered farmhouse ruins stand defiant among citrus groves, while a historic marker on the south bank designates Pierre Denaud’s original 1838 blockhouse site. The cemetery on the north bank shelters 2,900 graves beneath Spanish moss, and the surrounding landscape reveals how agricultural empire replaced military outposts in Southwest Florida’s transformation from frontier battleground to modern farming corridor.
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