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Attention Photographers and Videographers!
Have you photographed or filmed/videoed in Koreshan State Park? Send us your images and footage for possible inclusion on our new website, newsletters and popular Facebook page! If selected, you will have your photos and videos/films featured with a link to your website and/or Facebook page. Nature/landscape/architectural shots and videos preferred, but all submissions will be considered. Send your photos or, if you have video or film, a link to your work to friendsofkoreshan@gmail.com. Please include your Facebook URL and handle and/or website address, and follow us on Facebook to see if your work was selected! When shooting in the park, please adhere to our photographer regulations and remember to practice social distancing.
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Become a Friend of the Koreshans!
The Friends of Koreshan State Park enjoy free park admission, retail discounts, invitations to member-only special events and outings, their own newsletter, among other perks! We have three levels of memberships you can explore here.
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The Koreshan Unity Old and New Stores
by Roger Parlin, Volunteer, Docent, Tour Guide
The Old Store, built by the Koreshan Unity in 1902-1903, faced the Estero River, the best and likely only means of travel there. Going would have been slow. The fifteen-mile trip from Estero to Fort Myers on horseback would have taken all day, depending on the time of year. In the summer rainy season, the trail could be covered with water and muddy. During the dry winter, wagon wheels would sink in the sugar sand. [read more]
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