Calusa & Concrete Marco Island, Florida

Marco Island, Florida

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  • The Best Things to Do in Marco Island, FloridaHalf of Marco Island’s 18,436 housing units sit empty most of the year; the other half belongs to people whose median age is 67.7. Both halves share the same sand.
  • Parks and Nature near Marco IslandThe island is a shelf of dredged sand, but the green spaces on it still argue with the past.
  • The Beaches of Marco IslandThe Calusa built their lives on this shell mound for over a thousand years, and then the Mackle brothers spent one decade in the 1960s turning it into a grid of canals and condominiums; the beach is the one thing they didn't have to manufacture.
  • Museums and Historic Sites in Marco IslandTwo thousand years is a long time to hold a coastline. The Calusa did it; the Mackle brothers took a decade. Marco Island’s museums and markers are the awkward, honest record of both.
  • Fishing Charters and Boat Tours in Marco IslandThe water here was worked long before it was played on. The Calusa pulled their living from these mangroves and passes from about 500 CE, leaving shell mounds that would later be bulldozed into building plots. The same water that fed a pre-Columbian civilization now carries pontoon boats full of visitors looking for dolphins. Both facts are true, and neither cancels the other out.

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