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The hotel is located at the southern end of Gasparilla Island you will find the Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse. Right next to the lighthouse is the sister city - a building that is as assistant to the lighthouse keeper at home served. Originally built in 1890, these two buildings were nearly lost to the sea. By 1970, the shoreline was eroded by hundreds of meters and the sea begins to reach the Lighthouse Foundation. Local concern grew and the government had measures to ensure the lighthouseIn order for future generations.

When phosphate was a few miles upriver discovered by the future location of the lighthouse in the early 1880s, the phosphate the river on barges to Port Boca Grande was shipped and then loaded onto ocean oceangoing vessels. Due to the increased volume of business of the port, appriated Congress 35,000 U.S. dollars for the construction of a lighthouse at the southern tip of Gasparilla Island in 1888, and the Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse was born.

Lighthouse keepers andtheir families lived and worked in the lighthouse of 1890 to 1951. The Boca Grande lighthouse served as a home for the lighthouse keeper and his family, and the twin building next to it served as headquarters of the lighthouse keeper's assistant. The holder would be for the light until midnight, and then his assistant would be to tilt the light for the rest of the night.

The Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse is believed to have two ghosts. In the history of the lighthouse, the young daughterfrom one of the keepers died in the apartment, probably of diphtheria or whooping cough. Tour guides say that she heard playing in an upstairs room of the building can be. A former park ranger guided tours through the lighthouse, often pointed to a door on the second floor and said that the visitors it was one of the little girl's favorite places to play. the former ranger also said to be at midnight, the little girl can play one on the top floor.

The second spirit is said thatthe headless ghost of a Spanish princess named Josefa. The legend says that a Spanish pirate Jose Gaspar (aka Gasparilla), buried his treasure in the sand near where the Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse to be built some ninety years later. Apparently fell Gaspar in love with the Spanish princess he had kidnapped. She was not interested and if they rejected his love, he drew his sword in a fit of rage and cut off her head. Ashamed that he had done to Josefa, Gasparilla gathered up herlifeless body and buried in the sand on the island. Unfortunately for her, his love for her was so great that he did not want to leave it and the legend says, he wearing his beloved head with him for the rest of his days. Reports say that her headless spirit has emerged, walking the beach on Gasparilla Iceland, probably have his head.

The U.S. Coast Guard automated the light in 1956. Ten years later, in 1966, the Coast Guard took the light from the building, which wasThrough neglect and deterioration of coastal erosion. In 1972 Lee County took over ownership of the lighthouse and surrounding 13 hectares, and began a long process of saving the building. The funds were raised by the Gasparilla Iceland Conservation Association, and the lighthouse has been restored.

The lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and in 1986 the lighthouse was lit, and returned as a functioning Coast Guard light service. In 1988, the lighthouse and surrounding areaLand was transferred from Lee County, Florida, Iceland, and was Gasparilla State Park

The Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse is open to the public. Although it is fenced computer is off, you can get a great view of the lighthouse from the nearby park and beach. The assistant keeper's house now used as a home for the park rangers.

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