National Park Service
5/15/13Florida
Eighty-five years ago, work crews built a dam across the Everglades and called it the Tamiami Trail. The two-lane highway, completed in 1928, blocked most of the flow of the River of Grass just as it began trickling into what would become Everglades National Park. On Wednesday, the dam broke. About 10 a.m., a worke …
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