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Cruising through the USA's most salubrious neighborhoods
While most of Florida
was first settled by farmers and later, after
the great freezes of the early 1890s destroyed
the fruit crops, by displaced laborers,
there is a couple of spots which have always been
the reserve of the nation's very important
people. Palm Beach was created in the 1890s
as a resort for the very rich by Henry Flagler,
the man who, singlehanded, bought modern Florida
into being. But Naples is much older,
much richer and much more respectable.
Since the 1880's people
wealthy enough to draw a gentleman's yacht
up to William Haldeman's 600 foot pier have
been enjoying the climate of this idyllic spot,
and the pier is still there, and they are still
drawing up to it. Haldeman, a Kentucky
newspaper tycoon and a group of friends bought
the entire town after it became famous for its
climate and beauty in the 1870s. Roger Gordon
and Joe Wiggins settled there in 1867,
and soon the place was being talked about for
its Mediterranean climate, splendid fishing
and physical beauty. Newspapers compared it to
the sunny southern Italian region of Naples,
and the name stuck. That beginning has been
setting the tone ever since.
The rich and famous are not known
for their use of public buses, so in Naples
you really do need a car. We have three outlets,
at the public airport, the private airport
and in town, to choose from. Book now to
make sure you have transport on arrival. 
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