By Thomas Graham
Arguably no guy did extra to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. virtually single-handedly, he reworked the east coast of Florida from a distant frontier into the wintry weather playground of America’s elite.
Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the tale of the way one of many wealthiest males in the United States spared no price in remodeling the country’s “Oldest urban” into the “Newport of the South.” He outfitted railroads into distant components the place males feared to tread and erected palatial resorts on swampland. He funded hospitals and church buildings and more suitable streets and parks. the wealthy and recognized flocked to his invented paradise.
In tracing Flagler’s lifestyles and moment occupation, Thomas Graham unearths a lot in regards to the internal lifetime of the previous oil wealthy person and the demons that drove him to extend a coastal empire southward to Palm seashore, Miami, Key West, and eventually Nassau. Graham additionally offers voice to the contributors historical past has forgotten: the ladies who wrote vacationer books, the artists who embellished the inns, the black servants who waited tables, and the reporters who filed society columns within the newspapers.
Filled with interesting information that carry the Gilded Age to existence, this publication will stand because the definitive background of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.
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