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Henry M. Flagler—Empire Builder, W. M. Walker, 1925. From the 1880s through the second decade of the twentieth century, Henry Flagler dedicated himself to the development of Florida’s East Coast. Born in 1830 in Hopewell, NY, Flagler worked in grain and salt production businesses before becoming a founding partner in Standard Oil.
15 de oct. de 2013 · Fall Exhibition Man of the Century: The Incomparable Legacy of Henry Morrison Flagler October 15, 2013 - January 5, 2014. Two thousand thirteen marks the 100th anniversary of the end of Henry Flagler's amazing life, and thus it is the ideal year to reflect on the legacy of Flagler, the person who literally invented modern Florida by laying the foundation for an economy that now ranks third ...
Henry Flagler: el hombre que soñaba con un tren entre Cuba y Estados Unidos. Viernes, 21 de agosto de 2020. A principios del siglo XX, contrario a lo que se piensa, la ciudad más importante de Florida no era Miami, ni San Agustín, ni Pensacola. Las ciudades de Orlando, Ford Fort Lauderdale y Jacksonville aun no existían.
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, and ...
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18 de dic. de 2020 · Henry Morrison Flagler, eleven years younger than Henry Plant, was born in Hopewell, New York in 1830. At the age of fourteen, Flagler moved to Ohio where his stepbrother Stephen Harkness lived. After working in a retail store and a grain business owned by a Harkness relative, in 1862 Flagler co-founded a salt mining company in Michigan, but that business failed.
26 de ago. de 2023 · Henry Flagler and Henry Plant were both trying to develop Florida at the same time. Henry Flagler took the east coast and Henry Plant took the west. Florida, a sun-soaked paradise synonymous with tourism, owes much of its allure and development to the visionary endeavors of two remarkable men: Henry Flagler and Henry Plant. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these two pioneers left an ...
Henry Morrison Flagler was born in a little town in New York state thirty years before the outbreak of the war between the states. He lived to see the completion of his greatest undertaking-the construction of the Key West extension-shortly after his eighty-second birthday and two years before the beginning of the World war.
