Gulf City lost pirate settlement Florida

 Are you sure it was on that island?  I detected that island before and didn't find anything.  The bridge that fell was a modern bridge that was supposedly damaged by a hurricane.  It also appears that the channel was dredged and the sand was pumped onto the island.

 I believe the old Gulf City is where the current one is.

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 I have pinpointed where the post office was from an old map.  There are 4 new houses with perfect lawns there, so no detecting it.  It was on a Northern point just South of the Island.
 What information lead you to believe the original site was on the Island?  You are probably right since that would be more secure and it was the pirate Ben Margoza who started it. 
 I got a new deep seeker and a hand held mag, I'll check it out again this winter. 

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	It also appears that the channel was dredged and the sand was pumped onto the island.

Thats a problem everywhere along the Gulf coast and I would guess the East coast also.

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I lived in Gulf City as a child. The bridge actually was built by some real estate types trying to sell property on Goat Island but (I know one of the men who worked on this) they used chopped wood in with the fill dirt on the island side of the bridge and the 2nd car to drive across it cracked there and that was the end of that. There is a sub shop in Ruskin called Marion's Subs (she's since passed on but the store's still open) she was from Gulf City as was her Mother Ms Hanson who I used to visit, she was at least in her 80s back in 1980 so she was there prior to the building of the Tamiami Trail. She said the only paths around were cow paths thru the tall grasses and prior to the founding of Ruskin. The Morgans farm a good chunk thru the middle and the rest has various houses, trailers etc. Where there were cow fields have been purchased and turned into retirement trailer parks. At one time there was a fish camp and a general store as the fishing used to be very good there. If you go a bit south there's Old Sun City where they made some movies hoping to turn it into a place for that purpose and you can see the old sidewalks and some set debris in the woods but Gulf City I've explored all over and except for one other house probably as old as Ms Hansons (which has been torn down) I've never seen any trace of anything prior to 1900. Used to be great fossil hunting at a shell pit but now they've been filled in and houses are built around them. The little manatee river is the only thing holding it from being another housing development as the cost to run city water and sewer under the river is cost prohibitive. I can tell you in 1970 you could walk across the open span of the broken bridge which now erosion is enough to sail a boat thru and they've removed the top of the bridge. For what it's worth. When I was young the origin of that bridge was speculation until I made friends with someone who was from Gulf City and like I said worked on the project. Was a nicer place in the 70's.

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