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  2. Gasparilla Inn & Club - Wikipedia

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    The Gasparilla Inn & Club is a historic hotel at 500 Palm Avenue on Gasparilla Island in Boca Grande, Florida. [2]The Gasparilla Inn is one of the largest surviving resort hotels in Florida, constructed originally for wealthy northerners in the early 20th century, during the time when the state became a travel and vacation destination.

  3. Gasparilla Island - Wikipedia

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    Gasparilla was sparsely inhabited until the late 19th century, with the only permanent residents being local fishing families. [1] In 1848, the United States military established an outpost at Boca Grande. In 1897 Albert W. Gilchrist, future governor of Florida, purchased land at Boca Grande and platted it for development as a town. [2]

  4. Boca Grande, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Location of Boca Grande, Florida Public beach on Gulf Blvd, looking north. Boca Grande is a small residential community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida.Gasparilla Island is a part of both Charlotte and Lee counties, while the actual village of Boca Grande, which is home to many seasonal and some year-round residents, is entirely in the Lee County portion of the island.

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    The colorful account of his supposed life first surfaced in the early 1900s in an advertising brochure for the Gasparilla Inn, which was located south of Tampa in Boca Grande at the end of a rail ...

  6. José Gaspar - Wikipedia

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    A brochure advertising the Gasparilla Inn (pictured) was the primary source of the Gaspar legend. The first written account of José Gaspar comes from an early 1900s brochure for the Gasparilla Inn Resort and Club in the recently established tourist town of Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island at Charlotte Harbor. [3]

  7. Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway - Wikipedia

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    By 1907, the line was completed between Boca Grande and Arcadia, where repair shops were located, as well as a connection to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Lakeland—Fort Myers Line (the former Florida Southern Railway). The Boca Grande port included a 3,000 foot dock for loading large vessels directly from railroad cars.

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County ...

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    South of Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island 26°44′29″N 82°15′49″W  /  26.741389°N 82.263611°W  / 26.741389; -82.263611  ( Boca Grande Lighthouse Boca Grande

  9. Tucker Carlson’s Southwest Florida home was in ... - AOL

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    Hurricane Ian hit Fox News personality Tucker Carlson literally close to home yesterday. In July 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic, the TV personality bought a sweet home on Gasparilla ...

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