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Halstead and Emily Lindsley House is a national historic site located at 1300 West 13th Street, Boca Grande, Florida in Lee County. Built in Mediterranean Revival, it was designed by F. Burrall Hoffman, who also designed Villa Vizcaya. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [2]
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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In 1897 Albert W. Gilchrist, future governor of Florida, purchased land at Boca Grande and platted it for development as a town. [ 2 ] According to Florida folklore, Gasparilla Island gets its name from the legendary pirate captain José Gaspar ("Gasparilla", c. 1756–1821), who had his base on the island and purportedly hid his fabulous ...
Boca grande is Spanish for big mouth. It may also refer to: Places. Bocagrande, Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia; Bocagrande channel, Cartagena Bay ...
The Boca Grande Community Center (also known as Boca Grande School) is a historic site in Boca Grande, Florida, United States. It is located east of Park Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets. On March 30, 1995, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
First Baptist Church of Boca Grande is a historic Southern Baptist church located at 421 4th Street West, Boca Grande, Florida in Lee County. It was established in 1909 on Gasparilla Island. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [3]
Boca Grande Pass, a natural deepwater inlet at the south end of Gasparilla Island, was seen as the perfect place for a deepwater port to simplify the process of shipping phosphate. The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway was first chartered in 1897 as the Alafia, Manatee, and Gulf Coast Railroad .