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San Marco Road begins on the west end of Marco Island at Collier Boulevard (former SR 951). From here, it heads east through the center of Marco Island. On the east side of the island, San Marco Road passes just north of the community of Goodland before crossing the Stan Gober Memorial Bridge on to the Collier County
The southern section of the road was still known as Isles of Capri Road until 2000, when the full road from Marco Island to Immokalee Road was officially named Collier Boulevard. [10] [11] State Road 951 formerly extended 2.6 miles (4.2 km) to the south, terminating at County Road 92 (San Marco Road) in Marco Island. This section was turned ...
Marco Island in the 1960s. Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida.A number of Calusa artifacts were discovered on Key Marco (an island then adjacent, and since attached, to Marco Island) in 1896 by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing as part of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition.
The Jolley Bridge opened in 1969 and was the second vehicular bridge connecting to Marco Island. The first was the original span of the Goodland Bridge built in 1938. When it opened, it included fishing piers below the bridge. [4] The piers were heavily damaged after the landfall of Hurricane Wilma in 2005, and were subsequently removed. [5]
North Naples is an unincorporated community in northwest Collier County, Florida, United States, [1] located immediately north of Naples. The North Naples area includes the census-designated places of Naples Park, Pelican Bay, and Pine Ridge, as well as additional surrounding land. North Naples is part of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan ...
Horr's Island is located just south of Marco Island in Collier County, Florida. Horr's Island is a significant Archaic period archaeological site located on an island in Southwest Florida formerly known as Horr's Island. Horr's Island (now called Key Marco, not to be confused with the archaeological site Key Marco) is on the south side of Marco ...
Golden Gate is located in western Collier County at 5] 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Naples According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 4.1 square miles (10.6 km 2 ), of which 3.9 square miles (10.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km 2 ), or 5.08%, is water.
Pelican Bay is located in northwestern Collier County at It is part of the area known as North Naples and is located just south of Naples Park and west of Pine Ridge.It is bordered to the south by the city of Naples, to the east by U.S. Route 41 (the Tamiami Trail), to the north by Vanderbilt Beach Road, and to the west by the Gulf of Mexico.