San Carlos Park of Southwest Florida
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Jules Freeman
The emergence of the San Carlos Park community was compelled by an extraordinary pair of brothers named Jules and Jack Freeman. Originally from New York, the Freeman Brothers were raised in the era of The Great Depression and toiled in a variety of jobs to help support their family. Upon graduation from City College, these brothers professionally excelled in the fields of accounting and financial advising. They went on to assist Aviation Pioneer Ed Daly in the founding of World Airways, a company credited with establishing the first, coast-to-coast, non-scheduled air service in America. Jules and Jack would later go on to create American Agronomics, a corporation that helped bolster development of Southwest Florida’s citrus industry. They purchased and planted more than 30,000 acres of citrus, including the famed “Joshua Grove” of Arcadia. Larger than the City of Manhatten, the grove was once recognized by National Geographic Magazine as the world’s largest. The brothers also helped launch California’s pistachio industry in what was the state’s first commercially successful cultivation of crops. They would later do the same in Israel. Yet, with respect for land development, in 1953, Jules Freeman paid $9,600 to acquire 240 acres of property. He believed the land could be used to develop affordable, single-family homes, crucial to the needs of the working-class. This not only marked the very beginning of San Carlos Park, but the earliest in a series of affordable neighborhoods the Freeman Brothers developed for working class families. While there has been much growth in-and-around this area of Southwest Florida, San Carlos Park (which now encompasses more than 2,000 acres) has remained one of the region’s best resources for securing affordable, single-family homes.
San Carlos Park Features
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San Carlos Park Springs
While it often seems wide attention is lavished upon matters occurring in the larger metropolitan communities of Naples and Fort Myers, San Carlos Park does have its own allure and intriguing points of interest. One of the more fascinating is an artesian spring of hot mineral water some believe to possess powers-of-healing, especially for those afflicted with skin or arthritic conditions. According to local accounts, the spring resulted from prospectors searching for oil back in the 1960s. After drilling down some 1,000 feet, they stumbled upon a pool of hot mineral water which today is pumped to the surface and collected in two pools located beside the Days Inn Springs Resort. Despite its pungent aroma of sulfur, people have traveled from far and wide to immerse within the warm mineral water which some claim helps detoxify the body and mitigate against psoriasis or other inflammatory disorders. These assertions are dismissed by most healthcare practitioners, but the artesian spring remains one of San Carlos Park’s more interesting landmarks. In more modern times, San Carlos Park has gained notoriety among travelers for being home to an eclectic lodging venue comprised by pyramid-type chalets. Yet, while these man-man landmarks have emerged among the intriguing elements of San Carlos Park, it is the natural features in sunny weather and waterways which add to the allure.
Mullock Creek
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Mullock Creek
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Sportingly Spectacular
With its per capita composite of public and private holes, Southwest Florida has been celebrated as “The Golf Capital of the World.” San Carlos Park Preserve is among the epicenter of golfing activities. In fact, San Carlos Park is home to one of the most senior of golf clubs established in the region. Developed in 1971, the San Carlos Golf Club was designed by John E. O’Connor, the same architect behind the West End Golf Course in Gainesville (touted as the largest “lighted” course in the world). The San Carlos Park Golf Course features 18-holes and 6,465 yards of action from the longest tees, for a par of 71. The course has long been popular with area golfers and in 1981, a number banded together to purchase the property. Today, as a semi-private club, memberships are available. Of course, this is just one of numerous courses in Southwest Florida. Only minutes from San Carlos Park Preserve, the range of options include: Old Corkscrew, the region’s only stand-alone Jack Nicklaus Signature Course; Wildcat Run, an Arnold Palmer-designed course recognized among the best in the Southeastern United States; and Raptor Bay, the Ray Floyd-designed course near the Coconut Point Hyatt Resort. These and other of the finest fairways that can be found this side of heaven await moments from San Carlos Park.
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Shopping, Dining & Entertainment
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Coconut Point Mall
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Moscow Ballet at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center
San Carlos Park is also conveniently close to major performance centers such as the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. In addition to serving as a home to Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the B.B. Mann routinely hosts concerts by comedians and legendary recording artists. It also stages lavish productions by some of the top touring acts in the country. Concerts and other cultural events are also conducted at nearby Germain Arena, from shows on-ice and circus acts to rodeos, monster truck shows and more; there’s much in the way of entertainment appreciably close to San Carlos Park.
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