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By this time, then, it seemed that everything Flagler touched would turn to gold.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
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The fact that the pilings were so enormous was one reason why the two men had been so troubled by the discovery that the 1910 hurricane had managed to move one out of place. But, as if spurred on by the realization that Flagler was weakening physically, Coe and Krome went back to work with a vengeance.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
He had little doubt that things would proceed in Miami as they had in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach and Palm Beach, but even Flagler could not have predicted the events that would cause…
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Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Following Hurricane Andrew’s assault on South Miami– Dade County in 1992, then-president George Bush flew over Homestead and its environs, and, even after that bird’s-eye view of things, returned to Washington, still undecided whether federal relief funds were truly necessary. Outraged community leaders demanded that Bush return for a street-level
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In 1903 he had added a twelve-mile extension of the FEC along an ancient limestone formation running southwestward from Miami and known as the Cutler Ridge.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Three weeks later the hotel on Biscayne Bay opened, five stories tall and almost seven hundred feet long, capped by an awe-inspiring lookout platform and surrounded…
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