10/08/2026
Walk to the beach or the bay every day. Just 2.5 months of fall still open. Grateful to look after these little 1940 cottages in Longbeach Village, the first settled corner of Longboat Key. Imagine the old fishermen coming ashore in longboats, drying nets where the palms are now. THIS is the corner cross streets where Thomas Mann homesteaded this ground in 1891, grew pineapples and citrus, and lived in a thatched hut.
By 1911 it was a real village: a hotel, a Broadway dock, and the Mistletoe steamer tying up with mail and supplies. Same shell paths. Same gulf light. And, NO clannish condo HOA commandos!
