This photo shows a graded road cutting through the Jordan pasture on the Frizzell Ranch. The grade ended at a small beach on Alligator Bay, now the Port Charlotte Beach Complex.

This photo shows cow pens near the Rocky Creek pasture on the Frizzell Ranch.

This aerial photo shows the city of Punta Gorda on the south shore of Charlotte Harbor. The Hotel Charlotte Harbor and its Olympic-sized pool can be seen in the center foreground. The bridge at far left was the first to span the bay; the middle of the bridge was removed, turning the abutments into fishing piers, when the second bridge was built in 1931. The second bridge (the first Barron Collier Bridge) is seen at the bottom center of the photo; the street it connects to is now northbound U.S. 41.

This aerial photo shows an oil well on the Vanderbilt Ranch, near what is now Cape Haze. The Vanderbilt Ranch, owned by Alfred and William Vanderbilt, covered 35,000 acres of timber and cattle range. The Vanderbilts obtained gas and oil exploration leases and began drilling at sites east of State Road 771. The venture was not successful and the Vanderbilts turned to development of the peninsula, building sea walls and hauling in fill dirt. William sold his holdings to Alfred in the late 1960s; Alfred sold the ranch to the Cavanagh Corporation of Miami in the 1970s and development was expanded. The original ranch boundaries encompassed the areas that are now the communities of Cape Haze, South Gulf Cove and Rotonda West.

This aerial photo looking west toward the Gulf of Mexico shows a small portion of the Frizzell timberland. A.C. Frizzell owned well over 100,000 acres, used primarily for cattle grazing as well as lumber and turpentine production. In the 1940s, Frizzell leased more than 30,000 acres to the Sinclair Prairie Co., for oil exploration. He also sold about 20,000 acres to Alfred and William Vanderbilt. In 1954 (the year this photo was taken) Mr. Frizzell sold about 80,000 acres to the Florida West Coast Development Company (headed by the Mackle Brothers). The former Frizzell ranch now contains the communities of Murdock, Port Charlotte, Gulf Cove, Cape Haze, Rotonda and a few other subdivisions.

This aerial photo shows the north fence line of the Frizzell Ranch. No landmarks are specified.

This aerial photo of the Frizzell Ranch shows a graded road through the Jordan pasture leading to Alligator Bay, an inlet of Charlotte Harbor. The Port Charlotte Beach Complex is sited on the east shore of Alligator Bay.

This photo shows a young Sandhill crane wading through a marsh in the Joshlin pasture at the Frizzell Ranch.

This photo showing livestock loading pens alongside open freight cars on the train track was taken at the Charlotte train station at Murdock. The cars appear to be carrying phosphate.

This photo taken at the Frizzell Ranch shows the Rocky Creek pasture, newly planted with torpedo grass. Torpedo grass became popular for pasture use in the 1920s because it is particularly hardy; it can withstand drought and brief periods of inundation and holds up well to grazing and trampling by cattle.

This photo is identified as "Creek just before Cash Corner in Englewood." Cash Corner was an early name for the corner of State Road 776 (Englewood Road) and State Road 775 (Placida Road); the original establishment there was a bar with dance floor built in the 1930s by "Baj" Cash. A larger cocktail lounge built by Lou Woods in the 1950s resulted in the site being called "Woods Corner," then "Whiskey Corners." The old lounge was torn down in 1989 and the Merchants Crossing shopping plaza was erected. The site lies between Ainger Creek and Gottfried Creek; it is unknown which of those creeks is pictured here.

This photo shows cattle pens at San Cassa, an unsuccessful "land boom" development platted just south of Englewood. A post office was opened at San Cassa in 1927, but discontinued in 1931; mail service for the few settlers was transferred to El Jobean. The failed development later became part of the Frizzell Ranch.