It’s the question almost every newcomer to the area eventually asks: Who was Henry Flagler, and what did he actually have to do with Flagler County, Flagler Beach, or any of this? The short answer is that Henry Morrison Flagler was one of the most consequential people in Florida’s history — a Standard Oil tycoon turned railroad and hotel magnate whose Florida East Coast Railway essentially invented the modern state. The longer answer, and the mo…
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