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Louise Crowninshield portrait restored after storm damage

A replacement portrait of Louise Evelina du Pont Crowninshield has been restored after damage from 2024 hurricanes. It will hang above the fireplace in the Crowninshield Community House as it had pr…

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Remembering the last manager of the Seaboard phosphate docks

The last port agent and manager of Boca Grande’s phosphate dock, Joe Murray Freeman Jr., died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in Temple Terrace at age 96…

This date in the Boca Beacon: COVID Strawberry Fest

FIVE YEARS AGO L.A. Ainger Middle School held its first concert of the year with some Lemon Bay H.S. players filling in. A “new kind” of Strawber…

History Bytes: Nancy Galliher, island memories, growing family here

February 26, 2026

This week, just before the start of the fourth and final presentation of this year’s History Bytes series, Boca Grande Historical Society Vice Presi…

This date in the Boca Beacon: New 5K course record

February 26, 2026

FIVE YEARS AGO Many residents responding to a National Register of Historic Places proposal were against the inclusion even before the public mee…

Developer of Gasparilla’s Sea Oats and Sanibel projects remembered

February 19, 2026

The co-founder of a Southwest Florida homebuilding company that built Sea Oats, a condo complex on the north end of Boca Grande, died on Jan. 23. …

Docent-led history tours begin again at the Fust Library

February 19, 2026

BY THE JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION The Johann Fust Community Library has been at the core of the Boca Grande Community for decades, and now, a…

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