As one Charlotte Sun-Herald reported in 2000, " The grow up starting with the arrival of the Southern Florida Railway. The first issue of the Punta Gorda Herald was published February 17, 1893. The original building on Cross Street and Retta Esplanade located on the lower floor of a cigar factory, burned to the ground in 1895. The offices moved to Marion Avenue and Taylor Street. In September 1901 The Punta Gorda Herald was purchased by Adrian Pettus Jordan. In 1913 Jordan built a new building on the corner of Taylor and Herald Court where he lived on the first floor and the composing rooms were on the second. The building was used until it was damaged by Hurricane Charley in 2004. The Herald SUN is currently located on Harborview Road in Port Charlotte.
