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Subdivision: Deep Lagoon Estates. With Unobstructed Access to Gulf, this recently remodeled waterfront property boasts spacious 4 bedrooms and 4. Realtyquest Inc. Subdivision: Coconut Creek. Inside, a spacious, inviting foyer Century 21 Ocean. Coldwell Banker Realty. Tootie financed the project with only one provision —that the hotel be named after Bradford. In , Tootie donated 40 acres of the land out in east Fort Myers for a country club. The Fort Myers Yacht and Country Club opened in , but the proposed golf course was never completed.
Because bond issues for roads continued to be defeated, it took club members an hour of wallowing through sand to get out there, so they finally shrugged off the effort. In , Tootie proposed to the town council the construction of a sea wall, suggesting that they build it feet out from shore and, on the fill, construct a foot-wide waterfront walkway from Billy Bowlegs Creek to Monroe Street.
This pedestrian boulevard would transform the sewage stinking, garbage dump of the river's edge into a flowered promenade. Predictably, the public walkway proposition failed, but the seawall was approved and on April 10, , Tootie swung the mallet to the first piling with a vengeance.
Also in , Tootie bought the grand Royal Palm Hotel. The latest owner of the hotel had not the means to open it, and to save this great resort, Tootie bought it, spent a small fortune on improvements, and re-opened it with a glittering social event.
In February, , Tootie called a meeting of the town council and the county commissioners. The gentlemen convened, perhaps nervously. Tootie's proposal, the construction of a hard-surfaced road from Monroe Street to Whiskey Creek, was met with stunned silence. Since the turn of the century, every effort to get a bond issue approved for road construction had failed. The only "road" in Fort Myers was still nothing but a narrow strip of graded, crushed shell down the middle of First Street.
Let's imagine, then, that at her proposal, the town councilmen laced their fingers tightly across their vests and that Tootie, with amused eyes, added that if they would build the road to Whiskey Creek, she would take it from Whiskey Creek all the way to Punta Rassa.
We can imagine this generous woman waiting with a quiet smile as the realization of the enormity of her offer gradually dawned upon the town council. She was not alone when she died. With her was her second husband, Dr. Marshall Orlando Terry. Tootie and Dr. Terry had married one month to the day of the grand opening of the imposing Bradford Hotel in Fort Myers.
Born in Utica, New York, Dr. Terry was an eminent New York physician. Among his many honors, Dr. Terry was also on the Board of Directors of the A. McGregor Home, a residence for elderly ladies in East Cleveland. Terry and Tootie, together with Tootie's sister Sophia and her husband, James McCrosky, had conceived and incorporated this institution in Tootie, of course, had financed the project. Almost certainly, Mrs. McGregor and Dr.
Terry had moved in the same social circles in Cleveland and New York long before they married. Probably, they were old friends. In popular legend, they were "childhood sweet hearts," and although Dr. Terry did attend medical school in Cleveland when Tootie was a young woman, this writer has found no documented evidence to support a youthful romantic involvement between them. In any case, when Tootie died, Dr.
McGregor Boulevard was completed, with bridges and culverts, in The benefit to Fort Myers of this road cannot be overestimated. Terry had laid the infrastructure for the expansion of Fort Myers, channeling out of its political stagnation a free flow of growth from the Caloosahatchee River to the Gulf of Mexico. A monument to the woman who is responsible for possibly the greatest civic improvement in the early history of Fort Myers stands today, appropriately, in front of the Fort Myers Country Club on McGregor Boulevard.
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