Look at Marco from the air and you see a town laced with water — thousands of homes on navigable canals, a whole island engineered for boats. That is the work of three brothers. In the 1960s, Elliott, Robert, and Frank Mackle and their Deltona Corporation bought the island, dredged the mangroves into a grid of waterways and waterfront lots, and sold the dream of a planned island paradise to middle-class America. Marco opened to the public in 1965, drew tens of thousands to its grand opening, and a bridge soon linked it to the mainland. The quiet fishing island became one of Florida’s most sought-after addresses almost overnight.
Today Marco Island is white sand and warm water, shell mounds and shelling, a quietly upscale paradise at the edge of the Everglades. Our Marco Island designs gather that identity — the alligator emblem, the Calusa shell island, the wide Gulf beach — into wearable form. Marco Island — where Florida’s widest sugar-sand beach rises from a thousand years of shells.
Why People Visit Marco Island
Marco Island rewards visitors who want wide white sand, warm shallow water, and shells underfoot, with a rare depth of history close by. Add the boat trips into the Ten Thousand Islands and the year-round Gulf sun, and the case makes itself.
