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Estero is a village in Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 18,176. It is the home of Germain Arena, which hosts the home games for the Florida Everblades ECHL ice hockey team. Florida Gulf Coast University is also located just outside the Estero Planning District.
Estero is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Estero was established and incorporated by the followers of Cyrus Teed, who proposed a theory that we live on the inside of the Earth's outer skin, and that celestial bodies are all contained inside the hollow Earth. This theory, which he called Koreshan Unity, drew followers to purchase and occupy a 320-acre (1.3 km2) tract in 1894. They were business-oriented and lived communally, prospering enough to found its own political party ("The Progressive Liberty Party") and incorporate the town on September 1, 1904 as Estero. The 1908 death of Dr. Teed (who claimed to be immortal) was a critical blow to the group's faith, whose membership dwindled into the 1960s. The Foundation remains as "The College of Life Foundation," which contributed (for example) at least $25,000 to the Gulf Shore Playhouse in or around 2007. The Koreshans' original tract is now owned by Florida as the Koreshan State Historic Site. Estero is now an incorporated area of Lee County, as of December 2014, and is known as the Village of Estero.
Gotta way to, fill the spaces
Fill the spaces that we once knew
Gotta way to, fill the spaces
Fill the spaces that we went through
I'll be goin' to the company store
I'll be hangin' with my old friends
I'll be goin' to the company store
As with my problems they will end
Gotta way to, hear the laughter
Hear the laughter that we once knew
Gotta way to, feel the feelings
Feel the feelings that you put me through
I'll build a rocket to fly across in
Fly across the trouble we know, yeah
I'll find my freedom, and with my freedom
I'll go wherever I choose yes
I don't wanna hear the voices
I don't wanna leave again
One good pass and I'll be gone from here
One good run and I'll be free
Got a rocket, in my pocket
Don't think I'll turn anyone in
It's my one thing, it's my one thing
I believe it can get me through yes
I'll refine it, they'll refine it
From this one horse town I know yeah
Get out of jail, with the bail here