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Once, the only
people to stroll Naples' seven miles of white, sandy beaches, were the
Caloosa Indians. The first settlers, Roger Gordon and Joe Wiggins, arrived
in Naples in the late 1860's. A river and two inlets still bear their names.
Throughout the 1870's and '80's, magazine and newspaper stories telling
of the area's mild climate and abundant fish and game likened it to the
sunny Italian peninsula. The name Naples caught on when promoters described
the bay as "surpassing the bay in Naples, Italy." In 1887, a group of wealthy Kentuckians, led by Walter N. Haldeman, owner
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, purchased virtually the entire town of
Naples. One of the first improvements Haldeman and the Naples Company made
was to build a pier 600 feet into the Gulf of Mexico. The unusual "T" shape
allowed large ships to dock easily. Despite being destroyed and rebuilt
three times, the pier's "T" shape remains. Naples quickly gained a reputation as a winter resort. Social life
revolved around the Naples Hotel, which played host to celebrities such as
Rose Cleveland, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr,
and Gary Cooper. As the town of Naples went up, so did the price of
property. The cost of a beachfront lot soon reached $125. In 1911, Barron G. Collier, who had made his fortune in streetcar
advertising, visited nearby Useppa Island. He was so taken with the area
that he bought over a million acres of untouched swampland - including most
of Naples. Collier believed that Florida's west coast could enjoy the same
boom that the east coast was experiencing in the 1920's; but first it was
necessary to bring in road and railroads. Based on Collier's promise to help build the Tamiami Trail, in 1923 the
state legislature created Collier County, of which Naples is the county
seat. Collier spent more than $1 million of his own money to construct the
Tamiami Trail, which opened in 1926 as the only paved highway linking the
state's two largest cities - Tampa and Miami. Collier died before he could see his dream come true, but come true it
did. Today, Naples enjoys unparalleled prosperity. And the area's unrivaled
sport fishing, hunting, boating, sun bathing, and beach combing attract
people today just as it did a century ago.
*Historical information thanks to "Dining and Doing Guide"
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