Posts Tagged ‘Estero history’

500 BC — The Calusa tribe migrates to Estero. Numbering about 50,000 at their peak, the Calusa used nets to catch mullet, pinfish, pigfish and catfish and spears to catch eels and turtles. They used fish-bone arrowheads to hunt for deer. Women and children learned to catch shellfish. 1513 — Ponce de León leads the…