is the actualall 17 acres that is located where friedman's villages. henderson hall is the military base on fort myers today and that is where they told us the 17 acres of friedman's village was. .here is a marker aross the street, there is placard telling the information of friedman's village. when they us that list friedman's village, they put in a school, a post office, the citizens directed their own churches. they also had homes for senior citizens and elderly. they had their own little marketplace and everything. the main plan was to teach these people how to read and write and how to survive on their own, how to work, how to create a family and live the american way. they had to9, disband friedman's village because it was on arlington cemetery and at the time, they were bringing slaves in the direction of the house. friedman's village was in between where they started all the way to the house. they said you have to disband and go somewhere else while we to put gravesrty on. when friedman's village disbanded in 1898, the citizens created the afri