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Edison’s and Ford’s winter lives along the river
Fort Myers doesn’t always make the short list when people talk about Florida.
But tucked along the Caloosahatchee River, more than 20 acres hold something you won’t find anywhere else: the side-by-side winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
Over 200,000 people walk these grounds every year, and most of them say the same thing afterward. They had no idea any of this was here.
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Edison followed his doctor’s orders straight to Florida
In 1885, Thomas Edison’s doctor told him to find a warmer climate…