Round 10: Tossup 9

A man who worked in this region alongside Paul Kroegel as one of the first American game wardens was murdered by a poacher he tried to arrest. Hamilton Disston bought four million acres of land in this region in 1881, which may be the largest land purchase ever made by a single person. Planned communities in this region like Poinciana and Aladdin City were abandoned after one state’s real estate bubble popped in the 1920s. Conservationists like (*) Ernest Coe strongly opposed a project in this region (10[1])advocated for by governor Napoleon Broward. The Herbert Hoover dike controlled the flooding of a lake in this region. Marjory Stoneman Douglas advocated protecting this natural region in a book subtitled “River of Grass.” For 10 points, name this large swamp in southern Florida. ■END■

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