The structure, known as a "chickee" hut, is exempt from Florida Building ... "But before then, it was a means of refuge in the Everglades from alligators and all that good stuff." ...

O.B. Osceola grew up in Ochopee and went to school in Everglades City. He worked odd jobs at gas stations and for a friend's air-conditioning company and built chickee huts during the weekends.

Dotted throughout the Everglades are unique camping spots called chickee huts — wooden platforms with railings and a thatched roof that sits in the middle of the water. Interestingly ...

Odrey recently applied for a permit for a chickee hut. Inspectors, the board and Everglades City's head of code enforcement say Odrey has to fix the roof first, not build a chickee hut.

Jimmie had to construct the chickee hut where his future wife and he would live. Jimmie used a hatchet to cut cypress trees on the Big Cypress Reservation in the Everglades and then stripped the ...

In addition, the Trail Lakes Campground behind the headquarters offers cabins, chickee huts and RV and tent sites for overnight accommodations. On-site Everglades Adventure Tours offers pole boat ...

Like the classic arcade game, the Everglades are filled with mazes ... home to two backcountry chickee-hut sites).

Because sulfur-based fertilizers and phosphorous leaked into the Everglades ... still return to maintain the tree islands and chickee huts. They also have ceremonies and legally gather herbs ...

the Everglades in Florida. Members of the Miccosukee tribe, Osceola and her family maintain as many traditions as possible--such as living in chickee huts, thatched-roof homes made of cypress wood ...

They even constructed a chickee hut next to the house and used the the ... control the water flow from Central Florida through the Everglades. This system had the unintended consequences of ...