New River (Broward County, Florida)




This article is about the New River in Broward County, Florida. For the other New River in
North Florida, see New River (Santa Fe River).



The New River as seen from Fort Lauderdale's Riverwalk.


The New River is a tidal estuary in South Florida, United States. The river is connected to the Everglades through a series of man-made canals. After passing through Fort Lauderdale, the river connects to the Atlantic Ocean at Port Everglades cut. The river is entirely within Broward County and is composed from the junction of three main canals which originate in the Everglades, splitting off from the Miami Canal. They are the North New River Canal, which flows on the north side of State Road 84 / Interstate 595; the South New River Canal, which flows on the north side of Griffin Road and the south side of Orange Drive; and a canal which flows south of Sunrise Boulevard.




Contents






  • 1 Origin of name


  • 2 History


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Origin of name


According to a legend attributed in 1940 to the Seminoles by writers working in the Florida Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration, New River had appeared suddenly after a night of strong winds, loud noises, and shaking ground, resulting in the Seminoles calling the river Himmarshee, meaning "new water". The report of the Writers' Project attributed the noise and shaking to an earthquake which collapsed the roof of an underground river.[1] Folk historian Lawrence Will relates that the Seminole name for the river was Coontie-Hatchee, for the coontie (Zamia integrifolia) that grew along the river, and that the chamber of commerce tried to change the name of the river to Himmarshee-Hatchee during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.[2]


The English name is derived from early explorer's maps. The mouth of the river was noted for its tendency to continuously change its entry point into the Atlantic Ocean through the shifting sand of the barrier island. Each time the coast was surveyed and charted the entry point would have shifted. So the location of the mouth would not be on any previous maps, and from off the coast would appear as if it had just developed. With each charting, the location would be recorded with the notation "new river". Since that was the name used on the maps, that was the name by which the first settlers came to know it, so the name stayed.[citation needed]



History





Stranahan House, the oldest building in Fort Lauderdale, originally built as a trading post


The area along the New River was occupied in prehistoric times by people of the Glades culture. At the time of first contact with Europeans, Tequesta people lived in the area. The Tequesta were gone by the middle of the 18th century. In 1788 Bahamians Charles and Frankee Lewis had established the earliest settlement along the river. The settlers fled the area with the start of the Second Seminole War, and the U.S. Army built a series of forts called Fort Lauderdale near the river. The first fort was where the North and South Forks joined. The fort was later moved to Tarpon Bend, and then to the barrier island near present-day Bahia Mar. A trading post established in the 1890s by Frank Stranahan (1864-1929) at a ferry crossing of the New River became the nucleus of the city of Fort Lauderdale.[3] Years later, Mrs. Ivy Stranahan recollected that in the early days of the trading post, the New River was so clear that fish and even large sharks could be easily seen in its depths.[3]


Prior to the 20th century, the New River originated as two streams, the North Fork and South Fork, which merged and connected directly to the Atlantic Ocean via the now defunct New River Inlet. The river was heavily modified in the first half of the 20th century. The North Fork was extended as the C-12 Canal along present-day Sunrise Boulevard, while the South Fork was extended by two canals: the G-15 or North New River Canal (created by 1912 to help drain the Everglades) and the C-11 or South New River Canal, which connects to the Miami Canal.[4] The South New River Canal also connects to the Dania Cutoff Canal, which leads eastward from the C-11 canal to the Intracoastal Waterway. [3]



See also



  • Snow-Reed Swing Bridge

  • Summerfield Boat Works



References





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  2. ^ Will, Lawrence E. (1965). Okeechobee Boats & Skippers. St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors Publishing Co. p. 73


  3. ^ abc Boning, Charles R. (2007). Florida's Rivers. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press. pp. 222–23. ISBN 978-1-56164-400-1.


  4. ^ http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xrepository/sfwmd_repository_pdf/facility_map_overview.pdf




External links



  • Media related to New River (Broward County, Florida) at Wikimedia Commons


Coordinates: 26°06′39″N 80°06′44″W / 26.1109199°N 80.1122665°W / 26.1109199; -80.1122665







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