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The Davis Causeway in 1934. The Causeway was commissioned by the owner of a local dredging company, Ben T. Davis, in the late 1920s to provide a more direct link between Tampa and Clearwater. The only current land route at that time required travelling over 30 miles (48 km) around the northern shore of Tampa Bay, through the community of ...
Davis Causeway which's construction began in 1927 would finally be finished in 1927 as the crash of the Florida land boom and later the Great Depression halted it. Its builder, Ben T. Davis would get an Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1933 to help with its completion and the bridge would end up opening on June 28, 1934. [91]
This dredge-and-fill operation was undertaken at the height of the Florida Land Boom by developer and Tampa native D. P. Davis. Davis then purchased all the dredged land for $350,000. He planned a resort community with three hotels, nine-hole golf course, airport, and swimming pool. D.P. Davis then sold 306 of the original lots for $1,683,582.
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Rockford is backing off a plan for an urban beach as it zeroes in on a Davis Park reboot. Here's the latest on the changes. Beach plan out of Rockford's Davis Park reboot.
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