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Lee County, Florida

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58historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

760,822pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 58 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Fort Myers, Boca Grande, Bokeelia.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

39 of 58 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

58 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alderman House	Fort Myers	Building	1988
Alva Consolidated Schools	Alva	Building	1999
Boca Grande Community Center	Boca Grande	Building	1995
Boca Grande Lighthouse	Boca Grande	District	1980
Boca Grande Quarantine Station	Boca Grande	Building	1996
Bonita Springs School	Bonita Springs	Building	1999
Buckingham School	Buckingham	Building	1989
Cabbage Key Historic District	Pineland	District	2015
Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District	Captiva	District	2013
Casa Rio	Fort Myers	Building	1996
Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot	Boca Grande	Building	1979
Dean Park Historic Residential District	Fort Myers	Building	2013
Demere Key	Pine Island	Site	1972
Downtown Boca Grande Historic District	Boca Grande	District	2011
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, School	Fort Myers	Building	1992
Edison Park Elementary School	Fort Myers	Building	1999
Edison, Thomas, Winter Estate	Fort Myers	District	1991
English, J. Colin, School	North Fort Myers	Building	1999
First Baptist Church of Boca Grande	Boca Grande	Building	2009
Fish Cabin at White Rock Shoals	St. James City	Building	1991
Ford, Henry, Estate	Fort Myers	Building	1988
Fort Myers Beach School	Fort Myers Beach	Building	1999
Fort Myers Downtown Commercial District	Fort Myers	District	1990
Galt Island Archeological District	St. James City	District	1996
Gasparilla Inn Historic District	Boca Grande	District	2008
Heitman, Gilmer, House	Fort Myers	Building	1996
Hendrickson Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Ice House at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Ice House at Point Blanco	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Jewett-Thompson House	Fort Meyers	Building	1988
Josslyn Island Site	Pineland	Site	1978
Journey's End	Boca Grande	Building	1985
Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District	Estero	District	1976
Larsen Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Lee County Courthouse	Fort Myers	Building	1989
Leneer Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Lindsley, Halstead and Emily, House	Boca Grande	Building	2011
McCollum Hall	Fort Myers	Building	2022
Menge-Hansen Marine Ways	Fort Myers	Building	2009
Mound House	Fort Meyers Beach	Building	2019
Mound Key Site	Fort Myers Beach	Site	1970
Murphy-Burroughs House	Fort Myers	Building	1984
Norton Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Olga School	Olga	Building	1995
Pardo, Mark Shellworks Site	Bokeelia	Site	1996
Pine-Aire Lodge	Boleela	Building	2014
Pineland Archeological District	Pineland	Site	1973
Punta Gorda Fish Company Cabin	Bokeelia	Building	2003
Punta Gorda Fish Company Ice House	North Captiva Island	Building	1989
Sanibel Colored School	Sanibel	Building	1999
Sanibel Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters	Sanibel	Building	1974
Terry Park Ballfield	Fort Myers	Site	1995
Tice Grammer School	Tice	Building	1999
Towles, William H., House	Fort Myers	Building	2008
Tween Waters Inn Historic District	Captiva	District	2011
Useppa Island Site	Bokeelia	Site	1996
Whidden Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks	Bokeelia	Building	1991
Whidden's Marina	Boca Grande	Building	2000

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lee was formed in 1887 (1887-05-13) from Monroe.

LEE created from MONROE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lee County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,414	3,071	9,540	17,488	23,404	54,539	205,266	440,888	760,822

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

14 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Buckingham Cemetery	26.67035	-81.72858
Coral Ridge Gardens Cemetery	26.6809	-81.91508
Fort Myers Cemetery	26.64991	-81.84694
Fort Myers Cemetery Oak Ridge	26.64496	-81.84681
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens	26.59754	-81.8808
Gulfside Park Historic Cemetery	26.42802	-82.0645
Hendry Frierson Cemetery	26.64367	-81.84675
Johnson Cemetery	26.38777	-81.82626
King Cemetery	None	None
Koreshan Unity Cemetery	26.43452	-81.82842
Lee Memorial Garden Cemetery	26.59368	-81.74925
Lehigh Memorial Park	26.60035	-81.65258
Memorial Gardens	26.59812	-81.88258
New Prospect Cemetery	26.68232	-81.87554

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Caloosahatchee	26.58369	-81.98314

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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