Discovering Whitfield Estates and the Other, Other, Ringling Brother!

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The plan was to have the most incredible housing development on Sarasota Bay. A grand, luxury hotel and first-class golf course. All created from the fortune Louis Broughton Whitfield made in sugar cane syrup and pickles.The golf course and a few houses were built, but the whole development went bust!

You can learn more about how that golf course, now at the Sarabay Country Club, literally changed the game of golf. Click here to watch Discovering the Suncoast - How Sarasota Changed Golf.

Do you have an idea for Discovering the Suncoast? Send an email to Discovering@MySuncoast.com! Tell me what’s unique and interesting in your part of Paradise!

You can watch previous episodes of Discovering the Suncoast online here: https://www.mysuncoast.com/content/community/discovering-the-suncoast/

Discovering the Suncoast airs live on ABC7 on these dates and times:

6:40am Wednesday on Good Morning Suncoast

9:30am Wednesday on Suncoast View

4:00pm Wednesday on ABC7 News

7:40am Saturday on Good Morning Suncoast Weekends (with special bonus features!)

11:00pm Sunday on ABC7 News

You can watch previous episodes of Discovering the Suncoast online here: https://www.mysuncoast.com/content/community/discovering-the-suncoast/

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