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Support the Punta Gorda History Center During the Giving Challenge

The Punta Gorda History Center is proud to participate in the upcoming Giving Challenge, taking place April 15–16 (noon to noon).

During this 24-hour event, every donation from $25 to $100 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of your gift.

Your support helps us continue our vital mission to preserve Punta Gorda’s rich history—from safeguarding documents, photographs, and maps to presenting engaging programs that bring our community’s past to life.

This is a wonderful opportunity to make your contribution go twice as far while ensuring that our local stories are protected and shared for generations to come.

Mark your calendar and be part of the Giving Challenge!

On April 15, click the image below to make your donation. 

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 2025 Exhibit - Punta Gorda Through the Lens of Old Postcards 

From the earliest days of the town, postcards, which blossomed in the late 1880s,  were an integral part of communications with friends and family in distant places.  As time went on and Punta Gorda became in part a tourist destination, visitors sent them as mementos of their travels through Florida.  Now these old postcards represent an important visual and written link to Punta Gorda’s past.  In this exhibit their importance to the historical record of the town will be illustrated and the role of postcards will be discussed in programs throughout the year.

Help Provide History

Often an incidental factor in a diary, photograph, map or other document can reveal more about the story of our town.  Before these important clues to our past are lost…