Urban area and local history museum or Fort Myers and Southwest Florida Historical Museum

On my field trip to the historic district in down town Fort Myers was a great experience. I had never being in down town during the day. It was great seen how the mix modern architecture and the old buildings to keep the historic portion of the city alive. Although they did a great job mixing history with present I think a lot of the meaning behind is lost do to people don’t being able to appreciate the historic value to South West Florida. On my visit to I was able to see the replicas of the votes use by Christopher Columbus in his expedition to America, Pinta and Nina were on the doc for people to see. I also try to visit the museum, but it was close. But I had the opportunity to see a replica of a house that pioneers’ use to live in. It was very interesting to match the description of the house built by Tobias Maclvey’s in the novel “A Land Remembered”. It kind of put this in perspective of how good our housing and buildings are now. Going back to downtown the court house was the only building that has keep original and in a way I feel they lost their sense of place. Losing the historic part of the historic portion of the city is like getting rear of it completely. In my opinion they should of keep downtown away from the historic district. For the fact that modern court, police department, jail, and governmental buildings can be relocated, but history doesn’t don’t have that capability.