![]() ![]() The project went way over budget (something like a proposed $500,000 to an actual 8 million)! It ended up being funded not only by the government but also significantly by two financial tycoons, James F. One of the contractors was quoted as saying that to get the work done, it would take 3 Ms: Men, Money, and Machinery.” (A more colorful commenter changed that to “muck, misery, and moccasins.”) Two thousand men worked tirelessly for almost five years before the highway was finished. Making this highway was an incredibly ambitious project back in the 1920s when it was built and fraught with some of the same difficulties as building the Panama Canal (51 miles long) since 76 miles ran through the Big Cypress Swamp and the Everglades. The Tamiami Trail, which we followed to Homestead, Florida (almost to Miami) The Tamiami Trail is a 275-mile highway connecting Tampa and Miami, and much of the east/west traverse forms the northern border of Everglades National Park.
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