This photo features The Gore Hotel with the Post Office addition in the front, circa early 1900s. This was the Gore residence on Captiva. Owners Alvin and Hattie Gore ran a tourist camp there called Camp Gore. Hattie Gore was Captiva's second postmistress.
The mailboat 'Santiva' docked at the old post office landing at the Gore hotel, pre 1940. The Gore Hotel was located on the property that eventually became Timmy's Nook, now the Green Flash Restaurant. The Captiva Island Historical Society's History Gallery, located in the Captiva Memorial Library, is a replica of the iconic mailboat.
