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Fifty Men’s Four-Year Battle Building Alligator Alley
In 1966, fifty brave men took on the wild Everglades to build Alligator Alley. They worked in knee-deep swamp water and slept in tents for weeks.
Project boss “Sonny” White said they all chose this tough job. Survey teams used boats, helicopters, and radios to map a path where no road had ever been.
Then came the real work – four giant Madawake dippers, worth a cool $250,000 each, dug rock day and night. The job ate up a truckload of dynamite each week…