The Port Has Lakeside Charm, Novel Dishes Port Hatchineha has long been a gateway to the vast, wilderness waterways that form the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, which, via the Kissimmee River, flow southward to Lake Okeechobee.
July 11, 2013 - The Lakeland Ledger
Cultural Council exhibit details life of the 'People of the Water' Driving through parts of Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties today it is hard to imagine the life of the indigenous people who called the Kissimmee River/Lake Okeechobee Basin home. Yet 3,000 years ago it was home to people who lived from Lake Kissimmee to Boynton Beach and were wiped out once the Spanish came to Florida.
July 10, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel