Cleveland Bass, top left, was a porter for the Seaboard Air Line Railway that once stopped in Naples; his and other photos of Black life on the railroad is at the Naples Depot Museum. Nearly all ...

Davies Warfield, president at the time of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, reads a card above the black-and-white photo at the museum. Just beneath it is a large diorama of the train arriving at an ...

"Anything that can help tell the story of the Black community in Naples, we'd be glad to have," the museum manager said.

Set in Naples' restored Seaboard Air Line Railway passenger station, the museum educates visitors on the railroad boom in the 1920s, and the explosion in development and population in Naples ...

a successful financier and railway executive who, as president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, took the decision to set up a service linking New York and Miami. Warfield, known as “Uncle Sol ...