Charlotte County, Florida: A History

By Ted Ehmann

Book Overview

For the first time, an unvarnished history of this Gulf Coast jewel.

At the end of the Civil War, the area around Charlotte County was the southernmost frontier in the United States. Americans rushed south for the promise of cheap land in paradise. Albert W. Gilchrist peddled that dream with great fanfare, but his outsized legacy as a driver of the area's growth comes with considerable baggage. As Charlotte County strives to reinvent itself once again, historian Ted Ehmann provides a historical lost-and-found where heroes fall from grace and new heroes are created. It's an account that predates the arrival of the railroad by millennia, weaving its way from the Calusa kingdom to present day, stripping the remnants of myth created by early developers' utopian promises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467146501
• ISBN13: 9781467146500
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"