Fort Myers or Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of
Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the
population was 62,298 and in 2019 was estimated at 87,103. Together
with the larger and more residential Cape Coral, it anchors a
metropolitan statistical area (MSA) which comprises Lee County and has
a population of 770,577 in 2019.Fort Myers is a gateway to the
southwest Florida region and a major tourist destination within
Florida. The winter estates of Thomas Edison ("Seminole Lodge") and
Henry Ford ("The Mangoes") are major attractions. The city is named
after Colonel Abraham Myers, the quartermaster general of the
Confederate States Army.Fort Myers is a gateway to the southwest
Florida region and a major tourist destination within Florida. The
winter estates of Thomas Edison ("Seminole Lodge") and Henry Ford
("The Mangoes") are major attractions. The city is named after Colonel
Abraham Myers, the quartermaster general of the Confederate States
Army.Spain originally had colonial influence in Florida, succeeded by
Great Britain and, lastly, the United States.During the Second
Seminole War, between 1835 and 1842, the U.S. Army operated Fort
Dulany at Punta Rassa, at the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River. When
a hurricane destroyed Fort Dulany in October 1841, army operations
were moved up the Caloosahatchee River to a site named Fort Harvie.
Fort Harvie was abandoned in 1842, as the Second Seminole War wound
down. After a white trader was killed by Seminoles on the Peace River
in 1849, the Army returned to the Caloosahatchee River in 1850. The
new Fort Myers was built on the burned ruins of Fort Harvie. The fort
was named for Brevet Colonel Abraham Charles Myers, quartermaster for
the Army's Department of Florida. It covered about 139 acres (56 ha),
and soon had 57 buildings, including a two-story blockhouse that was
pictured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and a
1,000-foot-long (300 m) wharf at which ships could dock. Irvin Solomon
notes that Fort Myers was described "as 'one of the finest and
largest' forts of the Seminole Wars". It was abandoned in 1858, at the
end of the Third Seminole War. Fort Myers, Florida Top Movies & Young Movies