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(Modern-day Gladiolus Drive was originally an access road to the gladiolus fields.) A look back: Ponce de Leon's journey to La Florida. Within 10 years, ...
A look back: Ponce de Leon's journey to La Florida. Within 10 years, 30 local gladiolus growers were cultivating over 2,500 acres, employing more than 1,000 workers, and shipping almost 45 million ...
A look back: Ponce de Leon's journey to La Florida. Within 10 years, 30 local gladiolus growers were cultivating over 2,500 acres, employing more than 1,000 workers, and shipping almost 45 million ...
Today we look back at Iona and why it made Fort Myers he gladiolus capital, with excerpts from an April 22, 2017, article by Cynthia A. Williams.
One of the few pieces of farmland left on Gladiolus Drive in south Fort Myers has sold and will join its neighboring properties as being developed to become part of the surrounding suburbia. The ...
At the same time, Dylan, the 30-year-old Fort Myers man, stopped on Gladiolus Drive, in the left turn lane. As the traffic signal changed to a green arrow, troopers said, the SUV proceeded to turn ...
The Lee County Sheriff's Office said on X that the crash shut down all eastbound lanes of Gladiolus Drive at Maida Lane, diverting traffic to Summerlin Road until about 10:50 a.m.
He was driving a car on Gladiolus Drive in Fort Myers when he failed to stop, crashing into an SUV. The passenger died at the scene, Sales and the other driver suffered serious injuries.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- All westbound lanes of Gladiolus Drive at Winkler Road have closed as rescue crews respond to two crashes. Deputies with the Lee ...
A teen driver faces charges in the March 12 crash that killed his passenger. Issac Giovani Sales, age 18, of Fort Myers, was driving a car on Gladiolus Drive approaching a red traffic signal at ...