Historical Info on Florida’s Marco Island
Marco Island is a truly unique island. The biggest of Florida’s renowned Ten Thousand Islands chain stretching from Everglades City in the north to Flamingo, the island has a wide variety of historically significant places to keep residents and tourists alike enamored with the peaceful community for a lifetime.
Part of the Wilderness Waterway, Marco Island’s varied geography alone is astounding. There are fifty foot high sand hills, pine forests, fields and pristine sandy beaches, and a mangrove swamp. Many people come to see the burrowing owls–nature lovers report that Marco Island is the only island in the Ten Thousand Islands system of islands to be home to these owls.
The city provides a full range of services for residents, with an excellent school system and utilities infrastructure. Residents and tourists can find numerous activities on Marco Island, including scuba diving, canoeing, boating, sport fishing, and much more. There are even archaeological digs over 2000 years old from Native American tribes, such as the Calusa Indian Burial Mount and the world famous MarcoCat sculpture.
The uniquely habitable islet was home to 14,879 residents in the 2000 census, but new census data to be released on December 21, 2010 is expected to show significant growth. The boom in real estate in the new millennium led to economic and population growth from the Naples metropolitan area, with many gorgeous homes commissioned during that time. With the housing price pullback that followed, Marco Island real estate has been found by bargain hunters to be priced very attractively. In fact, Marco Island condos and bank owned properties are some of the best bargains on the Multiple Listing Service.
Marco Island homes at the time of this writing range from $69,900 for a 460 s.f. townhouse to $10.5 million for a 11,000+ s.f. luxurious estate. There are numerous waterfront properties on the island, many with private docks for easy access to the peaceful Gulf of Mexico.
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