The following is an unbylined article from the April 2, 2012, Naples Daily News.
The city on the Imperial River wasn’t always Bonita Springs. It started as a surveyor’s camp, and as homesteaders began settling there in the late 1800s, the description morphed into its name.
For the next 25 years the growing community was known as Survey. It had a post office, a school and even a hotel. But when Tennessean investors came to town in 1912 looking to develop the area, all that changed…