Located in Sanibel Island, Gulfside City Park is a recreational park that has an unnamed long white sand beach. This beach is also known as Gulfside City Park Beach and Algiers Beach. As an interesting fact, the beach gets its alternative name after a Mississippi River steamboat boat named "Algiers" - this steamboat was the planned home of the affluent politician Lathrop Brown and his wife Helen. The Browns had bought the land around the beach’s current location to add it within their estate along with the steamboat during the late 1950s. However, Lathrop Brown died before his plans could be fully implemented, and the boat was dismantled in 1982, while Brown’s land was purchased by the city of Sanibel after Helen’s death in 1979.
