Why is the everglades called the everglades?

Answer 1

• because it has the everglades on the way to Orlando and it has most of the animals in the everglades national park.

Answer 2

Because "glades" is latin(prounounced how we say,"Gladys") for beauty, there for the everglades. for ever beauty.

According to The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an early eighteenth-century English surveyor, Gerard de Brahm, called them the "River Glades"; by 1823, American maps had changed that to "Ever Glades." The word "glade" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "glaed," meaning "shining" or "bright." For more than a thousand years, the English word "glade" has meant "an open grassy place." American colonists used it to describe grassy pasturelands.

Answer 3

The River grass by an Indianbecause that is what the Indians called it

Answer 4

researchers are still finding out. so far we only know that it might have been forming since the dinosaur ages.