This was the cottage of Miss Fitzpatrick, the tutor for the Dickey children. Her cottage became the original building that Bowman and Grace Price acquired in 1931. Soon after, this and other cottages became known as Price's Cottages, eventually renamed 'Tween Waters Inn, the first Captiva property to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
This was a different look for Timmy’s Nook in 1971. Now the site of the Green Flash Restaurant on the S-curve of Captiva Drive, while under the management of Buzz and Patsy (Wiles) Murphy, Timmy’s Nook briefly sported a thatched cover on its roof.
Women at a party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. John R. Dickey, the first winter home built on Captiva in 1906.
In 1901 William Herbert Binder, the first homesteader, donated this portion of land for construction of a one-room schoolhouse; attended by students from Captiva, Buck Key, and Sanibel. The building is now the Captiva Chapel by the Sea, which in 2013 was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
James and Signe Wightman in the 1920’s. The eventual owners of the Gulf View Inn, now the Mucky Duck.
This image features "Buzz" (F. Bowman) Price, his daughter, Dorothy Price (Dottie Wakefield) and Captain Stran after catching a huge tarpon in the early 1900's. Price and his wife, Grace, established 'Tween Waters Inn in 1931. Captain Stran was a resident fishing guide on the island. His wife, Clara Stran, owned a gift shop on Captiva.
The Singletons were owners/operators of the mailboat Santiva from 1936-1952. The captain was fined 3-days pay if the boat was late. In all its years the “Santiva” missed just a handful of trips due to hurricanes.
Andy Rosse's dock in a pre-1940s photo. Andy's dock was located on the current site of McCarthy's Marina at the end of the street now named for the colorful Mr. Rosse.
This is a picture of the main cottage at 'Tween Waters in the 1930s. Grace Price and her husband F. Bowman Price purchased the property in 1924, and was first known as Price's Cottages. They came to the island with their infant daughter Dorothy because of Bowman's poor health.
Photo of the Mucky Duck parking lot at the height of Tropical Storm Bob in July of 1985. Bob hit the southwest Florida Gulf coast as a tropical storm before turning north and intensifying as a Category 1 Hurricane.
