Broward County was named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Florida's governor from 1905-1909. During his term of office, Broward initiated the Everglades drainage project. The first canals that were supposed to draw the water from the Everglades began at the New River and ran to Lake Okeechobee. Other canals, such as the Hillsboro and Cypress followed soon thereafter.

So important were the canals and the resulting (if incomplete) drainage to this area, that when the county was formed in 1915, it was named in honor of Broward.

Three other Florida counties are named for Florida governors who served during the twentieth century. Can you name them?

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