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U.S. Naval Air Station at Vero Beach used the eighty-acre McKee Jungle Gardens between 1943 – 1945 for Jungle Survival Training for its Pilots Bound for the South Pacific.
Waldo Sexton built the Hall of Giants at McKee Jungle Gardens for the 35-foot-long table that first came to the U.S. in 1904 for the World's Fair
The choices made by McKee Botanical Garden developer Waldo Sexton — quirky, eclectic, eccentric — seem to me part of an era of Florida tourism shaped not by corporations but by the personalities of visionaries.
When it comes to surprises, they come in all kinds and sizes — both good and bad, big and little. But the best kind of a surprise is when you encounter a good one when you least expect it. And that’s what happens when you visit one of the oldest botanical gardens in the state, McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach. This venerable Florida attraction may be old, but this lush garden seems to have discovered its own fountain of youth as it kicks up its heels these days with one of the most innovative and alluring children’s gardens to be found anywhere. Of course, there’s plenty to attr...