In 1891, Colonel James M. Lewis built a hunting lodge near here on Deer Creek and named it New Point Comfort after his boyhood home, Old Point Comfort, in Virginia. In 1893, the Gottfried family from Milwaukee settled on Deer Creek, now named Gottfried Creek, and raised pineapples, cabbage, and celery. In 1919, Colonel Lewis bought all the land between Deer Creek and Rocky (Ainger) Creek, including the waterfront, from the Grove City Land Company, named the entire area New Point Comfort, and platted it into lots. In 1924, A. Stanley Lampp bought all the unsold Lewis and Gottfried lots. A plat for New Point Comfort was recorded in 1925, and the area was promoted as The Largest Point on Lemon Bay. This was the first subdivision platted on the Charlotte County side of Englewood. Circa 1931, John F. Bass Jr. founded the Bass Biological Laboratory at New Point Comfort to furnish research facilities to investigators in biological fields. The first full-time marine station on the Florida mainland, the laboratory remained in operation until 1944. Today, New Point Comfort is a quiet residential neighborhood that contains the largest numbers of historic buildings in Englewood.