"Where Is Port Charlotte, Florida?"

Port Charlotte Bridge

The first to call the Port Charlotte area of their home were the nomadic Paleo-Indians as they hunted large animals such as mammoths south during the last ice age about 10,000 BCE.At that time was not a coastal area of Port Charlotte , the peninsula of Florida was much larger than today and much drier. When the ice melted, sea level rose and took the form of Florida and the weather today and the Paleo-Indians gave way to the Calusa, the "Shell People". The Calusa bloomed on the southwest coast of Florida and there were about 50,000, when the first Spaniards reached the peninsula on 16 century. The arrival of Europeans was the Calusa devastating diseases such as smallpox and measles decimated the population. Finally, the Seminoles were coming from points north and settle on the peninsula.

In 1819 Florida was ceded by the Spaniards and became a U.S. territory in 1845 and was the Florida State 27. For the first 100 years of statehood, the area around Port Charlotte was mostly undeveloped. Maps of the area at the turn of the Century 20 show that most of the roads and railways leading bypassed in southwest Florida, the area of Port Charlotte had. Apart from some small-scale agriculture and livestock riches, the area was largely uninhabited. This would change if the post-World War II boom has opened people's eyes to the possibility of developing land in Florida.

In 1950, the Corporation has decided to run the now-defunct General Development brothers' tears, to take advantage of the boom and the land developed in the first place on both coasts of Florida. Among the areas are designed and developed the area of Port Charlotte was. Ultimately, Port Charlotte, would most populous of the population has become in Charlotte County, however, like most developments GDC Port Charlotte remained unincorporated land.

Port Charlotte was hard hit by Hurricane Charley struck Aug. 13, 2004. The prediction of hurricanes, Tampa, Florida as a Category 2 hurricane hit, has a right last minute and intensified into a Category 4 storm that made landfall near Charlotte Harbor and caused severe damage in the city of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte area. The storm has maximum winds of 145 mph destroyed almost half the houses in the county and caused serious ecological damage to sensitive wetlands in the region.
VIA Wikipedia

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