Fort Myers is a city, seat of Lee County, southwestern Florida, on the Caloosahatchee River estuary, near the Gulf of Mexico; incorporated 1905. It is a tourist center and also the commercial and shipping hub of a region producing flowers (particularly gladiolus and chrysanthemums), citrus fruit, and cattle. Manufactures consist of medical products, communications equipment, and clothing. The winter homes (currently museums) of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford and a community college are right here. The community expanded around a fort founded as Fort Harvie throughout 1841 and renamed in 1850 for Colonel Abraham C. Myers, then chief quartermaster in Florida.
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