The ancients of America built gigantic canals. Their sophisticated engineering doesn’t match what we’ve been told about how backward the natives of America were before the Europeans arrived. Sure, smaller canals are aimed at irrigation, but the ones I am presenting here are for ships, transportation and travel. They connected to natural rivers. Some are so wide and long, they evoke images of large ships sailing ancient inland America.
The Canals are found across North America, I’m using the State of Florida as just one example.
Archaeologists ascribe them to to native American tribes they called “Calusa” and “Ortona”. The waterways were excavated by digging through massive amounts of soil, wetlands and vegetation, often 3 to 35 feet deep and 20 to 50 feet wide. Archaeologists assert that these were dug by hand or using tools made of wood and seashells. The removed Earth, they say, was carried away by hand or in baskets.
It’s certainly possible that they were built this way. But what do the ancient native tribes say about who built them and how they were built?
Answer: Nothing. I quote from a lengthy AI inquiry:
There was a large “Indian Canal” in Naples Florida at the precise location you see on this old map:
It has been built over and not a trace of it is left except for this historical marker:
The sign informs us that they are not sure who built it. That’s an honest assessment. It was a “monumental historical construction” 4150 feet long. They say it dates back to at least the year 700-800. It was 50 feet wide and 25 feet deep.
The canal ran from what is today 9th Avenue, Naples to 13th Avenue, going into another larger Canal near where the Marker today stands.
Archaeologists insist that it was in use until 1660. Website after website says it was abandoned or no longer in use after 1660. Here’s one from Naples News:
If that’s true, why is it still visible as a canal on Naples maps from the 1880s?
I found no records what this 1660 idea is based on. Instead, records show the Canal was still visible and navigable in the 1920s. The Smithsonian undertook an expedition to the site in 1877 and other archaeologists examined it thereafter and yet, I found not a single photo of it.
Construction workers sometimes hit upon traces of the ancient construct:
The photo caption says archaeologists followed the construction crew for months. Why? “To determine the age of the ancient canal”, even though this was already “determined” long before, as far as I can tell.
Archaeologists say the Canal was 0.8 miles long, older writings say it was at least 1.5 miles long because it continued out into the Sea! This, for example is from an 1885 write-up in the magazine American Antiquarian, Volume 7.
Why do modern archaeologists omit the underwater part of the Canal?
There are many underwater canals, streets and trails around America (and the world), showing that much land that was once above water is now submerged. These are things built before the flood – that’s why nobody seems to remember who built them, how or when. Humanity are good at record keeping, so something big must have happened for us to forget. The entire field called “archaeology” seems to be set up not to help us remember but to help us forget.
Apart from large canals, the Museums say that the “Calusa Indians” also built Pyramids made of seashell, labeled “shell mounds” by archaeologists. The image at the top of this article is what ancient Florida may have looked like with its canals and mounds. Needless to say, hundreds of Florida mounds were allegedly also built by hand. Again, I find no statement from natives on how they were built.
The Pine Island Canal
The 1885 article also mentions a Canal on Pine Island, Florida. I quote from it:
“The other canal I visited, is quite as inexplicable, even more surprising for its extend and dimensions than this. It has been noticed in accounts of hunters and sportsmen…”
“…(it runs through)…a long Island known as Pine Island. (Pine Island) is about 18 miles long, and from three to five miles broad, extending in a direction nearly north to south”.
“…on our way we rose upon a slight ridge, and then descending into a hollow level for some thirty feet, again surmounted a ridge and then realized this was the Canal”
“…as far as the eye could reach, we could trace this canal in a direct line through the sparse pine woods, its course being especially marked by the tall fronds of the cabbage palms, which the moisture of the depression tempted to grow within the banks, and were confined to that level.”
“…it crosses the entire Island in a direct line on the course which I observed”
The article also mentions shell mound Pyramids alongside the Canal. All this things could still be seen in 1885 but they’ve since disappeared.
If you’ve read my previous articles on Florida you know that the entire state was filled with Pyramids, Terraces, large buildings and canals. Was all of this built with bare hands or wooden tools? I have my doubts.
Other Canals
An even earlier article, from 1877 titled “Ancient Canals in Florida” by Charles Kentworthy has this to say (select quotes only):
“In November and December, 1877, I indulged in a sail-boat cruise from Key West to Cedar Keys, and en route found and superficially examined an ancient canal in township 50 south, range 25 east. The accompanying drawing gives a sketch of the locality”.
“…The canal is at present 12 feet wide at the bottom, and about 40 at the top. The embankment on each side is about 4 feet higher than the original surface. Engineering skill was manifested in laying out the canal, for its first 600 feet are at right angles with the coast line, after which it trends to the eastward”.
A photo of the ancient “mud lake canal” in the Everglades, Florida:
Some canals are said to be modern constructions. This Canal at Cape Sable is claimed to be a relatively modern construction from the 1920s:
But in light of the evidence of ancient canals, I wonder whether some of these new ones were already there and we merely renewed or reinforced them. Maps from the 1800s indicate that Cape Sable was still occupied by native Americans in the late 1800s.
Some old photos of Florida canals show how debris is being dredged up from canals, as if they were merely cleaned by us rather than built:
Let’s now take this theory, of canals already having been built and then excavated by us, to the next level.
The Cape Coral Grid
This is an aerial photo of Cape Coral, Florida:
It makes up the largest system of Canals in the world. Venice and Amsterdam don’t come close.
Closer:
The canals you see are said to have been created fairly recently, between 1958 and the 1960 by land developers from Baltimore – the Rosen Brothers. The infertile swamp land was sold to gullible but affluent Americans as a summer-climate paradise and was quickly populated.
Just from a brief review of Google Maps, I see how some of the new canal and street lines seamlessly go into ancient ones on undeveloped land. This discovery was easy to make but that doesn’t make it less remarkable or mysterious.
A few examples of many:
A close-up example of what I mean by paths seamlessly continuing into undeveloped land:
My idea here is that they “developed” the city, but didn’t build it. Already existing lines were excavated. In previous articles I’ve shown similar continuations of grids and lines from modern towns into the desert. In Florida, it’s not desert but swamp and water, but the same principle applies. It’s pure speculation at this point, but worth considering.
Thus, “construction photos” from 1957, 1958 and 59 are consistent with excavation rather than building.
I’ve maintained for many years now, that all infertile areas such as deserts, ice-zones and swamps, were wiped out in a large scale war or cataclysm. Some of the remains of the old world were re-used, as apparently in the case of Florida.
The first photo upper left shows cape coral in 1957. The photo in the right is dated 1959. The next two photos are from around the same time.
After searching through museums and city archives for hours and consulting Gemini, Grok AI and ChatGPT I found only ONE Photo that allegedly shows this area before 1957, posted by a journalist on Facebook. Nothing else.
And I found exactly zero images of the area before 1955 and almost no maps of Lee County before that time.
Why? With any other U.S. State I can easily find maps of different counties from before the 1950s. You could argue that it was swampland and not worth photographing or mapping. But you could also argue they are trying to hide already existing structures.
A comment on the Facebook posts demands to know where exactly this is supposed to be because it doesn’t resemble the current layout, but receives no response. Regardless, even if it were the former Coral Gables, if it was overgrown, then the grid would have been covered anyway.
Cape Coral, Pine Island and Naples are close to each other. What if the three locations were part of one ancient and lost city and civilization?
Here’s one rare old map of Lee County. Cape Coral does not yet exist on this map, nor any indication of the canal grid. Only water lines branching out from the river are shown. But neither is the canal on Pine Island shown.
The area was called “Redfish Point” before it was Cape Coral. The exact area around Redfish point, however, is still undeveloped today.
I found a 1943 Geological Survey map which hints at tracks below ground. You see that across from Red Fish Point there is already a similar grid to the one that would form at Cape Coral:
Notice the curved parallel roads in the grid above. It’s unusual to build a town, with no regard to existing vegetation. But if the grid already existed, it would make sense to build along already existing lines.
This 1956 map hints at already existing or excavated canals a few years before “development” of Cape Coral started:
This article is a mere introduction to a topic that hasn’t yet been discussed in this way. Any amateur researcher can go to Google Earth and find more along these lines around all of Florida, in fact all of North America and ultimately around the world.