The Clewiston News

The Clewiston News is a newspaper which serves Clewiston, Florida, USA, and all of Hendry County and the surrounding area. New and historic issues of The Clewiston News are available in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library.

Historic content

The early years of The Clewiston News contain critical primary source data on early Florida, Florida pioneers, Clewiston history, Harlem history, the Everglades, the Seminole Indians, and World War II aviation. The history of the Harlem Community before the 1960s is available through the Clewiston News. There is no written history of Harlem, which used to include an area owned by U.S. Sugar called Townsite.

The Clewiston News historic newspapers contain valuable information on the history of aviation, because John Paul Riddle, a pioneer in aviation training, airplane manufacturing, and airline operations, operated a flight school in Clewiston during World War II. (He also constructed and ran bases in Arcadia, Daytona Beach and in Obion County, Tennessee.) Riddle-McKay Aviation School of Florida, a private contractor for the United States government, built and operated bases, training approximately 26,000 pilots.

gollark: Weeeeird.
gollark: Obviously the styropyro discord server™ should crowdfund better guidestones.
gollark: This seems implausible. It would be terrible for everyone involved.
gollark: Simply launch all unhealthy people directly into the sun.
gollark: It would be quite cool. Although exactly what Bell Labs did might be hard to replicate. They had actual commercial goals of some sort to work toward, and good integration with the company's manufacturing and such.

See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.