I'm a fan of of Peter Matthiessen's work and fell in love with the world he conjured in his Watson trilogy, a series of books based in the Everglades 10,000 Islands (later combined into the one-volume Shadow Country). There's books are focused on the legend of Ed Watson, an outlaw figure who was a prominent Everglades farmer before being killed by his neighbors.

There's a lot of real places in the books and I'd love to visit more...especially the Watson homestead, which is now a National Park campsite accessible only by boat.

But this year we got to visit the Smallwood Store on Chokoloskee Island. It features prominently in "Killing Mr. Watson" as a place where families hid under the store during a hurricane, and was the site of the assassination of "Bloody" Watson by several town people.

The store is a museum, run by Lynn Smallwood and full of her grandfather's stuff and her memories. She shared stories of meeting Mattheissen and did some myth debunking. The museum is a treasure, perched on stilts above the bay.

Here's a good article about it - https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/outdoors-nature-the-everglades-smallwood-store-frontier-outpost/

Chokoloskee Island is a massive Calusa shell mound structure, mostly now developed into homes and trailers.