Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 91,750. It is a principal city of the Ft Lauderdale metropolitan area. The city’s state comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their fruitless attempts to encourage a rice plantation in the area.

Before the start of the 20th century, the area that became Plantation was allocation of the Everglades wetlands, regularly covered by 2–3 feet of water. In 1855, Florida let in passed the Internal Improvement Act and standard the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, the trustees of which encounter as a organization agency to oversee management, sale, and further of disclose land. In 1897, the Interior Department submitted 2.9 million acres to the Florida Land Office; however, the acceptance was revoked the afterward year, due to fears it would “impinge on the rights and interests of the Seminole Tribes.” The Seminole people regularly used the Place for hunting, fishing and camping, and along with used the straightforward Pine Island Ridge as a headquarters during the second and third Seminole Wars.

In 1899, Florida Governor William Sherman Jennings began an initiative to drain the Everglades. To uphold Florida’s entitlement to the land, Jennings obtained a additional patent (known as the ‘Everglades Patent’) for land “aggregating 2,862,280 acres.” Following his election in 1905, Jennings’ successor, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward appointed Jennings as general suggestion of the Internal Improvement Fund and continued the initiative for total drainage of the Everglades (which was a core theme of his election campaign). Broward described the drainage as a duty of the trustees, and promised to create an “Empire of the Everglades”.

The first attempts to drain the Everglades began in 1906, with the building and launching of two dredges into the New River: The Okeechobee (commanded by Captain Walter S. Holloway of the US Army Corps of Engineers) began caustic from the river’s south fork (establishing the South New River Canal), and The Everglades began barbed from the north fork happening to Lake Okeechobee (establishing the North New River Canal). The first waterway opened after the drainage attempts was named The Holloway Canal, after Captain Holloway.