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History: Protecting Gasparilla Island’s seashore

Summary by bocabeacon.com
By KAREN GRACE It’s difficult to envision a boulevard in front of the beachfront houses but, as the accompanying 1919 photo shows, that’s how things were in the earliest years of the 20th century. The 1897 plat of the of the island north of what is now 1st Street shows 197 feet of high ground and 53 feet of beach west of the platted blocks. A wide thoroughfare was built in 1910. By 1925, a survey of the same area shows 15 feet of high ground and…
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bocabeacon.com broke the news in Boca Grande, United States on Thursday, May 22, 2025.
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