“It took extraordinary insights to turn a tangled mangrove swamp into one of America’s most exclusive residential neighborhoods. J. Glen Sample had that insight, the power, the money and the energy to create Port Royal. It can never happen again.” – Doris Reynolds, Naples Now, November 1978

It was those other Colliers,” stated ” Judy Sproul, granddaughter of Barron

Gift Collier, as a point of clarification about some kind of dredge. Digging for information about “those other Colliers,” the ones with no relation to Barron, led me to the story of their own diggings — diggings that uncovered one of the most significant archaeological finds in Southwest Florida history, and that also resulted in a new approach to digging for clams.

Main Street often refers to a place of traditional values, a primary retail street in a town where retailing and socializing take place. Our Main Street was once nothing more than a turn in the road between Fort Myers and Miami. Today it’s known as Fifth Avenue South. Four Corners

There is no history here,” remarked a newly transplanted City of Naples employee in 2007. “If the Historic District is ever de-listed, all we’ll have to do is take down the signs.”