Charlotte County, Florida
A History
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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 ...
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.
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![Cover Welsh's Directory of the City of Charlotte [1908]; 1908](https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/66/66163/66163390n.jpg "Welsh's Directory of the City of Charlotte [1908]; 1908")
![Cover Welsh's Directory of the City of Charlotte [1904-1905]; 1904-1905](https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/65/65537/65537064n.jpg "Welsh's Directory of the City of Charlotte [1904-1905]; 1904-1905")
