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Chokoloskee, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 404
Housing Units (2000): 589
Land area (2000): 0.279580 sq. miles (0.724109 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.279580 sq. miles (0.724109 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12150
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 25.812886 N, 81.360812 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Usage examples of "chokoloskee".

Why, only last week, folks at Everglade and Chokoloskee had told him he could move right in.

The settlements at Everglade and Half Way Creek was only mud bank, had their feet in water, but Chokoloskee Island is a shell mound of one hundred fifty acres, some of it twenty foot above the sea.

I was never a man to be scared off by hard work, and things went along real amiable with my feller pioneers until I got close to Mary Weeks, at Chokoloskee Island, down the Bay.

The oncoming boat is a small dark burr in the pewter light of Chokoloskee Bay.

We didn't know till later he was on the dodge, and maybe even Half Way Creek—half way between Everglade and Turner River, on the east side of Chokoloskee Bay—was too close to the lawmen for his liking.

Ain't nothing much out there today but a few old cisterns, but Half Way Creek had ten or a dozen families then, more than Everglade or Chokoloskee or anyplace else from Marco Island south to Cape Sable.

Until some years into this century, there weren't no regular school on Chokoloskee, so you went to work.

Biggest Injun mound south of Marco and Chokoloskee, which was why the Frenchman went there in the first place.

That was a lot of cash in them days, but there was forty acres of good soil and more across the river, the most high ground anywhere south of Chokoloskee, and Mister Watson liked Pavioni from the start.

Them farmers at Half Way Creek and Chokoloskee liked to laugh behind his back, but Mister Watson shipped potatoes for three-four years before he reckoned potatoes didn't pay, and he always raised a few for our own table.

A whole heap of people from Caxambas, Chokoloskee, Fakahatchee, including more'n one of my own kin, worked at Chatham Bend at one time or another, and a heap more had dealings with him here and there.

Watson proceeded to Everglade and Half Way Creek, two small farming communities on Chokoloskee Bay, in the northern part of the Ten Thousand Islands.

These pioneer outposts on the swampy mainland, together with nearby Chokoloskee Island, were the last points of civilization on the southwest coast.

There were also extensive mainland mounds at Turner River that were later farmed by Chokoloskee pioneers.

Gene is looking more at me than Henry, and I got the idea this was a message that Bill House was supposed to take on back to Chokoloskee, that Gene Hamilton didn't care to eat with niggers even if the rest of 'em put up with it.