How Tampa's Old Money Built Two Islands of Mansions and Then Vanished Without a Trace: Davis Islands

In the early hours of October 13, 1926, somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, a man went out through the porthole of his first-class stateroom and into the sea. No body. No struggle anyone could agree on. Only an open porthole and a ten-year-old boy asleep in the next cabin. The man was David Paul Davis — and the strange thing is that he'd spent the last two years of his life pulling land up out of the water, dredging two worthless sandbars off Tampa into 875 acres of Mediterranean mansions he sold for a fortune in a single day. Sources: https://tampamagazines.com/davis-isla... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_I...) https://dicivic.org/80th-anniversary-...