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Henry Flagler intended his next expansion, West Palm Beach, to be the end of his railroad system, but during 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the area. Legend says that landowner Julia Tuttle, a young widow who lived in Miami and advocated development, sent Flagler a spray of orange blossoms—proof that the freeze had left southern Florida untouched—as incentive to extend his railroad to ...
Welcome to the Flagler Museum. When it was completed in 1902, the New York Herald proclaimed that Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Gilded Age estate in Palm Beach, was "more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world."
Milestones in the Life of Henry M. Flagler. 1830: Born at Hope, New York, January 2. 1844: Went to Ohio to earn his own livelihood. 1859: Had accumulated $50,000 capital.
Apr 8, 2019 · Henry Morrison Flagler may have made his fortune in oil, but his legacy is fueled by his work in Florida. The oil magnate first visited the Sunshine State in 1878 when he traveled to Jacksonville on the advice of a doctor who told him the warm weather would do good for his ailing wife, Mary Harkness.
William Henry Jackson, The Alcazar and the Cordova viewed from the Ponce de Leon, c.1890sA New American Riviera: Henry Flagler and the Making of Modern Florida “The man who saw wilderness and out of it created an empire; who saw a desert and out of it made a garden…”Henry M. Flagler—Empire Builder, W.
A one-hour documentary that tells the story of how Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler came to Florida in the late 1800s, built a railroad and hotel empire on the last American frontier, ...
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