Florida East Coast Railway

3. Henry Flagler: influenced the development of Florida’s east coast, for example he was responsible for the Florida East Coast Railway, throughout his life time he made a contribution to Florida’s economy with the help of tourism and agriculture. He joined Rockefeller to the finding of Standard Oil. He constructed a hotel called Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine and produced a railroad system for more people to visit Florida. 4. Mary Lily Kenan: third wife of Henry Flagler, they moved to Palm

for U.S Sugar to avoid paying for its water? This paper will fill a critical research gap in answer these questions and making the information available. Section II of this paper will provide a brief history of agriculture and sugar production in Florida. Section III provides answers the two previous questions by utilizing primary sources. Finally, Section IV analyzes the

sunshine and warmth. Chief among these businesses they envisioned a winter tourism trade but to realize this dream they would require a strong transportation infrastructure. The coastal shipping trade along the United States’ East Coast helped to bring the first visitors to Florida spurred on by the growing railroad empires developed by Henry Flagler and Henry B. Plant. By the 1890s, these railroad tycoons

created as the Overseas Railway, Henry Flagler created the railway as an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. By 1905, Flagler was seeking a profitable challenge and decided that the Florida East Coast Railway should extend from Biscayne Bay to Key West. At the time, Key West was the most populated city in Florida with an estimated population of 20,000 and a profitable trading port with Cuba and Latin America. Construction began in 1905. 128 miles later, the Overseas Railway connected Key West

Richardson Dr. Pressler Freshman English 1 1101 18 May 2017 Working Bibliography Gannon, Michael, The History of Florida. University Press of Florida, c2013. Michael Gannon, in The History of Florida, covers pre-Columbian Florida and realize what the scene resembled when the first European voyagers arrived. Travel through the historical backdrop of movement and ethnicity in Florida, the lines of the Seminole and Miccosukee people groups, and the social orders of the free and subjugated Africans

and extended his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami in order to make his hotel ventures more accessible. This extension became apparent when Flagler visited St. Augustine, Florida with his second wife viewing it as an endearing location, yet deficient in sufficient resorts and transportation systems. He invested and purchased the Jacksonville, Halifax and St. Augustine railroad which led to the establishment of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler saw probable prospect in Florida to be a major tourist

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created a logistics center in South Florida that has and continues to bring a significant improvement to the transportation industry in this area of the country (Urban Land Institute, 2012). The main goal of this infrastructure project is to provide companies engaged in national and international trade with a large facility that can be used to transfer merchandise to and from this region by road, rail, ocean, and air (Urban Land Institute, 2012). The South Florida Logistics Center is strategically

disease and war which wreaked havoc on the Tequesta Indians. After a mere 250 years of the arrival of the Spanish, the Tequestas and other native populations in Florida were nearly gone. In 1821, Florida was sold to the United States of America for five million dollars in Spanish damage claims against the American government. After a year Florida became a territory which signified the beginning of its journey

Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is one of the most monumental land purchases in United States history. In basic terms, the Gadsden Purchase was an area of land that was acquired by the United States from Mexico in order to build a railway for the transportation of goods in the South from East to West in order to fulfill Manifest Destiny. Throughout this paper, I hope to accurately navigate through the events prior to the Gadsden Purchase as well as the early life of James Gadsden. Although many topics relate