Editing Okeechobee, Florida (section)

==History==
[[File:Okeechobee City Hall.JPG|thumb|left|The city hall of the town.]]

Okeechobee is close to the site of the [[Battle of Lake Okeechobee]], a major battle of the [[Second Seminole War]], fought between forces under the command of [[Zachary Taylor]] and [[Seminole]] warriors resisting forced removal to [[Indian Territory]] west of the [[Mississippi River]] in the 1830s. (This territory was later admitted as the state of Oklahoma in 1907.)

From 1918 to 1929, the international drink company [[Coca-Cola]] had a plant to bottle their drinks in Okeechobee in the current location of [[Jersey Mike’s Subs]] .Damages sustained from the 1928 [[Okeechobee Hurricane]] was the primary reason they stopped bottling in Okeechobee.

In the 1930s, Okeechobee was the commercial center for the surrounding area, shipping hundreds of train cars of winter vegetables annually. It had poultry farms, a catfish shipping plant, and a [[American bullfrog|bullfrog]] breeding industry.<ref name="Florida Guide">{{Cite book|title=Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State|last=Federal Writers' Project|date=1947|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=5th|page=468|location=New York}}</ref>

The [[American Guide Series|Florida guide]] described bullfrog breeding in the Okeechobee region:{{Blockquote
|text=Frog legs, or 'saddles,' bring high prices in the winter when frogs usually hibernate and are difficult to capture. Frog farmers enclose bottom lands, ponds, or swamps; as frogs live on insects, breeders strew the runs with rotting meat to attract blowflies. Some plant flowers and shrubs to lure bugs, and occasionally install electric lights to attract moths, beetles, and other nocturnal insects. A female frog lays from 10 to 30 thousand eggs a year; tadpoles appear from 60 to 90 days later, but frogs are seldom marketed before they are two years old.
<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last=Federal Writers' Project |date=1947 |edition= 5th |title=Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=468}}</ref>
|author=Federal Writers'Project|title="Part III: The Florida Loop"  |source=''Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State'' (1947)
}}