History of Marco Island

The Museum of the Everglades is a showcase for the history of the Everglades region in Southwest Florida. It’s housed in what was once a commercial laundry, built by Barron Collier’s company in 1927 as part of a planned community ...

Marcis Island was virtually unscathed from Hurricane David, which, for a time, seemed to pose a threat to this waterfront community.

The motto of the Collier County Museum in Naples is Bringing Home the Past. The museum has had an interesting, if somewhat, convoluted past. In the 1970s, the state decided to abandon its practice of maintaining archives for each separate ...

With students back in school, Marco Islanders reflected upon what made growing up on the Island such a unique educational experience.

You may recall that James Vensel, architect for the Deltona Corporation, was charged with the responsibility of planning the layout of Marco Island’s streets and canals in the early 1960s. The naming of these was supposedly done in one weekend, ...

Directors of three Marco Island Associations expressed their concerns this week over the impending federal flood plain ordinance, its economic impact and the failure of the county staff to properly consider the needs of the county.

A tremendous spurt in building permits, climaxing a record half-year in real estates sales, promises a strong second half for 1979. Building permits for July for the Marco Island area totaled $450,045,163, compared to $3,505,355 for June.

Over the years many reporters have written feature articles about Bud Kirk, the “shoeless scholar of the Everglades.” Bud left school after the eighth grade in Rochester, N.Y. It was 1930 and the Depression was on. He was 19, weary ...

A second baseball field for Marco Island’s Little League and softball programs was approved Wednesday by the Collier County Board of Commissioners.

On a PBS program in July called “Time Team America,” a group of trained archaeologists from around the country converged on a site called Topper in South Carolina. It was previously identified as a Clovis quarry for chert, the material ...

The original plan for the modern development of Marco Island was envisioned by the Mackle brothers of Deltona as Polynesian in style?

M&I Bank, in conjunction with the Marco Island Historical Society, hosted a reception at M&I Bank’s Marco Island Branch at The Esplanade, commencing at 5 p.m., July 23.

In December of 1971, my former wife and I traveled to Acapulco, Mexico, for a two-week vacation at the internationally famous Las Brisas Resort. Little did we know that we were about to meet and spend our vacation with a ...

The community can start the voting process between two outstanding paintings to depict the area’s Calusa history in a giant mural for the Marco Island History Museum, opening in 2010.

Collier County officials hold scant hope for relief, or postponement, of the Federal Flood Plain Ordinance, scheduled to be enacted by Sept. 14.