The first written account of Gaspar’s marauding come from a brochure for the Gasparilla Inn on Gasparilla Island, located just 100 miles south of Tampa Bay in Charlotte County. The legend of ...
"The first recorded reference of José Gaspar was in fact over 100 years after his supposed career, in a short biography included in an early 1900s promotional brochure for the Gasparilla Inn on ...
Gasparilla became a time-honored tradition in 1904 after local planners decided to make the legend of Gasparilla into the ...