Although its history is short, Lehigh Acres began as a “tax write-off” for a Chicago millionaire.
While Thomas A. Edison and his wife were spending winters in Fort Myers, there was a scattering of farm sites in the western areas of Lee County, known today as Lehigh Acres. Many families, most of them gone now, homesteaded some of the lands where today’s Homestead Rd., one of the community’s two main thoroughfares through town, is located. The government gave land to “homesteaders” if they promised to live and work the land.
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