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Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio.He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.
Flagler County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , the population was 115,378. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Bunnell , and the largest city is Palm Coast .
Location of Flagler County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Flagler County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Flagler County, Florida, United States.
Flagler Beach is a city in Flagler County in the U.S. state of Florida. The population was 5,160 at the 2020 census. The population was 5,160 at the 2020 census. Flagler Beach is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL metropolitan statistical area .
Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...
Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Flagler Beach, Florida.It is three miles west of Flagler Beach on CR 2001, south of SR 100, and contains the ruins of an ante-bellum plantation and its sugar mill, built of coquina, a fossiliferous sedimentary rock composed of shells.
Henry Flagler (1830–1913) was a principal in Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler and later a founder of Standard Oil during the Gilded Age in the United States.The wealthy Flagler took an interest in Florida while seeking a warmer climate for his ailing first wife in the late 1870s.
The Florida East Coast Railway depot in Sebastian.The structure was built in 1893. Beginning in 1892, when landowners south of Daytona petitioned him to extend the railroad 80 miles (130 km) south, Flagler began laying new railroad tracks; no longer did he follow his traditional practice of purchasing existing railroads and merging them into his growing rail system.