Apollo Beach
The City That Almost Wasn’t
Like many of the small communities on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Apollo Beach was first conceived of as a planned community. One that almost never came to fruition.
In the 1930’s, Paul Dickman came up with an far-reaching plan to take his family’s 4000+ farming and cattle land and turn it into a fully waterfront planned community similar to the what he’d seen in pictures of Italy.
He hired a Miami engineering firm to come up with a fully developed subdivision, laid out on the existing mangrove laden estuarial swamp land. The plan seemed good, but it stalled until the 1950’s when Dickman sold it to three New York land developers. Turner, Dean and Clark dubbed their venture “Tampa Beach,” believing the name connection to the popular larger Florida city would connect with their prospective investors.
Their first goal was the central Flamingo Canal that would interlock with the other canals and would run all the way to Tampa Bay, opening the city’s entire waterway. Like many of the small communities on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Apollo Beach was first conceived of as a planned community. One that almost never came to fruition.
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