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Cape Coral's 45th Anniversary

From the very beginning, Cape Coral has been known as a city full of people who give back by donating time, services or just being there for people of certain nationalities.In the beginning that was especially important, since few people lived there and everybody needed each other in order to ...

Cape kids: Growing up in the fledgling city

Growing up in Cape Coral as the city itself grew from a vision to the largest municipality between Tampa and Miami was a experience. "Cape kids" who now are taking their grandkids to the Yacht Club beach grew up in a close-knit community where life centered around not only that very same ...

Did you know?

From the early years of Cape Coral most from the headlines of the Cape Coral Breeze. Advertisements for available land for sale in Cape Coral were published across the U.S. starting in January 1958. In April 1958, the Kenny Swartz family became the first "official" residents of Cape Coral. In ...

A look back to 1970

(Editor's note: Cape Coral was incorporated in 1970. Here's a glimpse of the headline news items from that year published in The Cape Coral Breeze.)January Ground broken for 850-seat movie theater Gulf American now GAC Properties Harry James, band perform at Country Club Toll on Cape Bridge ...

One family helped shape Cape Coral into what it is today by contributing one of the first businesses to the city in the early 1960s.Elmer Tabor moved to Cape Coral in 1960 from West Virginia with his family. He said after his grandfather retired to the area in 1957, his family began to spend ...

Although the city of Cape Coral is only 45 years old, it has a number of landmarks - locations that stand out in people's minds as having been here for "a long time. "The Cape Coral Yacht Club, the Iwo Jima statue, Big John and the Cape Coral Shopping Plaza it towers over, City Hall, Cape ...