Abandoned Storage Building - Brighton Reservation - Okeechobee, Florida, USA
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N 27° 04.891 W 081° 04.282
17R E 492925 N 2995465
An abandoned building on the Brighton Reservation of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Waymark Code: WM1BTQV
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2025
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Located on the northwest side of the intersection of Harney Pond Road and Reservation Road NE is a well weathered abandoned building. This small building may have been a home or possibly a storage shed. What is known it is old and it is abandoned. Measuring approximately 10 feet by 20 feet it consists of unpainted pine siding with a rusted metal roof.
This building may have been constructed by the CCC in the 1930's or 40's, but we don't know for sure. It does seem to be possibly of some importance since it is in an area of recent development and this building has been spared being razed.
According to WPA Guide to Florida:
"The Florida guide referred to a "Seminole Village" in 1939, south of the town of Brighton, on a 35,660-acre reservation:
Here approximately 100 Indians are employed on CCC projects in road building, fencing, water development, and revegetation. All this group are Cow Creek, or Muskogee, differing in language from the Big Cypress Indians of the west coast, who are Mikasuki. Reservation Indians farm the center of cleared hammocks and herd some 800 head of Hereford and Angus cattle on a subsistence basis. Families live in groups of palm-thatched chuckoos, 10 feet by 12 feet, containing raised sleeping platforms covered with mosquito netting. One chuckoo serves as the family dining room, another as the kitchen. Both children and adults receive instruction in the village school, which is equipped with modern facilities, including a community workroom and shop, men's and women's showers, and a laundry." — Federal Writers'Project, "Part III: The Florida Loop", Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State (1947) (
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To serve the Seminole cattle business, "The Red Barn" was built in 1941 with help from the Civilian Conservation Corps and is located just down the road from this structure. The Red Barn has been designated a National Register of Historic Places site in 2008.