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Fort Myers began as a United States Army fort established in 1850 on the Caloosahatchee River, named for Colonel Abraham Charles Myers, then the Army's Chief Quartermaster in Florida.

The city of Fort Myers was founded in 1885 and established as a city in 1886, and it serves as the county seat of Lee County.

Fort Myers counted 86,395 residents in the 2020 Census, and Census Bureau estimates pushed it past 100,000 - to about 101,581 - by July 2025.

Fort Myers has about 38,364 households averaging 2.40 people each, and fewer than half of its homes, about 49%, are owner-occupied, reflecting its large seasonal and resort population.

Thomas Edison bought roughly 13 acres of riverfront land in 1885 and built his winter estate, Seminole Lodge, which was completed in 1887.

Henry Ford later bought the estate next door to Edison's, The Mangoes, making Fort Myers a winter gathering place for two of America's most famous industrialists.

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates span more than 20 acres with over 1,700 plants, one of the largest banyan trees in the continental United States, and Edison's Botanic Research Laboratory, where he searched for a domestic source of rubber.

Mina Edison deeded the Edison estate to the city in 1947, and public tours of the grounds began in 1950.

Fort Myers is nicknamed the 'City of Palms,' and the royal palms lining McGregor Boulevard trace back to 1907, when Edison offered to plant palms along the roadway.

Every March, spring training takes over the city: the Boston Red Sox play in a state-of-the-art ballpark that opened in 2012, and the Minnesota Twins also train in the Fort Myers area.