So far, we’ve covered the history of The News-Press and the formation of Lee County in this space. This week, the storied history of the Lee County Courthouse, courtesy of excerpts from an article by Cynthia A. Williams in the November 2015 The News-Press celebrating the 100-year anniversary:
In 1915, the citizens of Fort Myers must have taken a large measure of pride in the modernization of Fort Myers with the completion, in that year alone, of McGregor Boulevard and the stately Lee County Courthouse.
But beneath the veneer of modernization and civic pride smoldered old animosities…