Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Moore Haven, FL

Moore Haven is a small city and the county seat of Glades County, Florida, located on the southwest shoreline of Lake Okeechobee where the lake meets the Caloosahatchee River Canal.

Moore Haven was founded in 1915 by James A. Moore, a developer from Seattle who began platting the community as soon as he arrived, and it was incorporated just two years later, in 1917.

In its boom years Moore Haven was nicknamed "Little Chicago" because, like Chicago on Lake Michigan, it sat at the point where a great lake met a canal system - it is also jokingly known as "Hooterville."

Moore Haven made history in 1917 when Marian Newhall Horwitz was elected mayor, becoming not only the first woman mayor in Florida but the first female mayor anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Horwitz is credited with bringing the railroad to Moore Haven - the first train arrived on May 13, 1918, and the notoriously unreliable service was nicknamed the "Hinky Dink" and the "Muck Special."

Moore Haven's boom was broken by two storms: the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, whose Lake Okeechobee storm surge destroyed much of the town, and the catastrophic 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane that struck the areas spared in 1926.

Moore Haven had a population of 1,566 at the 2020 census, living in 591 households, and it is the only incorporated city in all of Glades County.

Moore Haven hosts the annual Chalo Nitka Festival, a celebration of the region's Seminole heritage and frontier culture, held on the first weekend of March.

Moore Haven has two access points to the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, the hiking and biking path that circles the entire lake along the Herbert Hoover Dike.

The Mamie Langdale Memorial Bridge, built in 2000 across the Caloosahatchee River just east of First Street, holds the Florida record for the longest concrete I-girder span at 320 feet.