Within two centuries, European diseases and Spanish ships had driven the Calusa from Sanibel.
Loud boatloads of them land near his home on Sanibel Island, Fla.
Then they heard of another Sanibel property they considered a deal.
In 2001 Susan, tired of managing the properties from a distance and yearning for Florida, moved to Sanibel, where she continued her computer work through 2003.
The Coast Guard cutter ships Tybee and Sanibel are coming from Woods Hole near the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, along with the Hammerhead, a smaller 87-footer.
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He returned in 1521 and unloaded 200 settlers, 50 horses and farming implements onto Sanibel to establish what would have been the first European settlement in America after the Vikings.
In 2002 they sold their Weston, Mass. home, completing their move to Florida's Sanibel Island, where they own and manage seven vacation rental houses, gather shells on the beach and watch their properties appreciate.
Through the 1960s and 1970s, Sanibel residents fought development plans to turn the island into a major residential area, finally voting to incorporate as the Town of Sanibel in 1974 and immediately putting all building permits on hold.
The Presbyterian mystic fell in love with the island, built an enormous church to seat three times the then island population of 100 and started working Sanibel into his sermons wherever he went, convinced that God had arranged his boating accident.
Learn about the history of the island at the Sanibel Historical Village and Museum where seven buildings have been restored to their original condition to help tell the stories of the Calusa, the early Spanish and the pioneer families who farmed here in the 1800s.
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