Looking Back

  • Employee Housing at 'Tween Waters Inn

    Employee housing at 'Tween Waters Inn (c 1990), the employees were known to call their accommodations "The Purple Penthouse."

  • First 'Tween Waters Cottage

    Miss Fitzpatrick was the tutor for the Dickey children. Her cottage became the original building that started 'Tween Waters Inn in 1931 by Bowman and Grace Price.

  • The Plantation House

    The Plantation House at South Seas Plantation (date unknown).

  • Bowman and Dorothy "Dottie" Price

    In 1924, Bowman and Grace Price purchased property on Captiva from John R. Dickey. This property included a small cottage belonging to the Dickey children’s tutor, Reba Fitzpatrick. Then they built a cottage towards the Gulf to be just a little guest cottage for family and friends. Originally known as “Price’s Cottages,” it took the name ‘Tween Waters Inn at the suggestion of conservationist/cartoonist J.N. “Ding” Darling who, along with his wife Penny, first stayed at the inn in March 1936.
  • Shuffleboard at Fisherman's Lodge

    Emma Alt (on right) and friend playing shuffleboard on the Fisherman's Lodge court (pre 1940).

  • The Dickey Hotel

    This image is the Dickey Hotel, built in 1911. The hotel was leased by the Snyder School For Boys and burned down in 1935. Belton Johnson built his first house on the site after the hotel burned down. 

Bridging the Past and the Present