Christmas

Charlotte county Christmas

Good Day to all and Happy Holidays! Hope you enjoy the first of my annual Christmas columns. Did you know, although a huge celebration today, the proclaimed date of Jesus’ birth has not always been so, and that the first record of Christmas in today’s Charlotte County dates from 1876? Early Christianity’s focus was on Easter, liturgically the time…

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Dedication of Trinity United’s fourth building

Dedication of Trinity United's fourth building

Good Day to all!  Did you know the oldest organized church in today’s Charlotte County is Trinity United Methodist in Charlotte Harbor?  The current building is the church’s fourth. Chartered in 1873 as a member of the Tampa Methodist Episcopal District, ten years before Isaac Trabue purchased land and started a town that would eventually become Punta Gorda, Hickory…

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