Just up the road from the Cape Coral Yacht Club are other historic reminders of the community’s beginnings. Between Riverside and Flamingo drives are the first eight homes built in 1958. When the Rosen brothers — Leonard and Jack — purchased 1,181 acres for $678,000 on land that ...
Native Americans, settlers and ranchers once walked and worked the land which was to become Cape Coral. The area’s history is packed with key turning points in the community’s development: 1920s Brothers Jacob and Hoge Blackley get 160 acres of land in Cape Coral from federal government ...
Before there were 200,000 people. Before there were 400 miles of canals. Before two bridges connected Cape Coral to the rest of the world, a nearly almost untouched piece of wilderness existed where mangroves and palmettos thrived, hogs and turkeys ran wild, and Native Americans and settlers ...
The Cape Coral Yacht Club is one of 39 parks in the city system, with seven more community and neighborhood parks on the way. A look at how many of the other parks got their names: Burton Memorial Park J. Chandler Burton was elected to Cape Coral’s first city council in 1970, winning ...
The Yacht Club is considered the first large entertainment, recreation and family and group gathering destination in Cape Coral. Here are other historic firsts: • First homes: Ground broken on first homes on Nov. 4, 1957, with lot prices ranging from $900 to $3,390. • First residents: ...
While 2020 was full of what could be called memorable events, the city of Cape Coral celebrated its 50th anniversary since incorporation throughout the calendar year despite those challenges. The golden year celebration started with a night of jubilation five decades in the making that took ...
