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The Thomas E. Richards family, Part VIII; photo, Gilbert's Bar Inlet.

As time went on and the flow of tourists and settlers steadily increased, Richards built a small store at the foot of his dock, out of which he operated the Eden Post Office - established on July 7, 1882. Eventually he extended his dock to 1,500 feet to give adequate depth and berthing space to the ever-increasing number of larger and larger steamboats plying the River. By the late 1880s Capt. Richards’ well-laid plans were beginning to take a firm hold.
Richards is credited with spearheading the second attempt to open a permanent inlet to the St. Lucie River at Gilbert’s Bar. Gilbert’s Bar is the name given to three different locations, depending on which old map is cited: one location is north of present Peck’s Lake in the Jupiter Narrows; another is at the present site of the St. Lucie Inlet; and the other is about two miles north of there near the St. Lucie Rocks (see Gilbert, Don Pedro and Davis, William). In November 1881, Richards organized the scant few settlers in the area and made preparations to open the inlet, probably at its present location. Lucie:

" Father keeps worrying about getting an inlet dug down the river. He says it will kill all of the grass in the river and make it more healthy here. We have, none of us, been sick, but the smell of the decaying grass is very unpleasant. They have been down several times to look the land over. Father does not want to make the inlet where old Gilbert’s Bar was, but farther south where he is sure it will keep open [Peck’s Lake]. They all met there last week. The Baker brothers, Old Joe, Jensen and the man from the House of Refuge [probably Preston McMillan]. They talked it over, and as they were in favor of the old cut, Father and Harry gave in and they will start digging soon. …
Well, here’s the story of another fizzle. They worked so hard, and dug a ditch down at Gilbert’s Bar, to the surf bank and made a culvert through the bank and left only about six feet to dig. Then when we had a high water inside and northwest wind, they were going to open it. Well, the water did get high, but the other conditions were not right and our folks did not go down. Dr. [William] Baker decided they had forgotten, so he moseyed over and opened the inlet at the wrong time, and it filled up with sand completely. It made Father and Harry sick, but they do not grieve much. We will continue to smell the decayed grass. There is so much iodine in it that it turns the silver black and our rings too. "

Two more futile attempts were made to open an outlet to the sea over the next few years: one led by Hubert Bessey in 1885, and another by Richards and Henry Sewall in 1892.

To be continued. Free download of the novel, The Wreckers: atropicalfrontier.com

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