Do the Charleston clear to Tampa Bay.......the code......Spaniard explorers.......one of the 8 paintings in the Capital rotunda is of De Soto finding the Mississippi.........it was De Soto who was 1st in the Tampa area.....west Florida...............the car.....De Soto......Ford motor corp..............as the Some's cafeteria poster.................Ford Falls apartments.......

Ponce de Leon Hotel - Now Flagler College

This project sparked Flagler's interest in creating a new "American Riviera." Two years later, he expanded his Florida holdings. He built a railroad bridge across the St. Johns River to gain access to the southern half of the state and purchased the Hotel Ormond, just north of Daytona. He also built the Alcazar hotel as an overflow hotel for the Ponce de León Hotel. The Alcazar stands today as the Lightner Museum next to the Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine that Flager bought from Franklin W. Smith. His personal dedication to the state of Florida was demonstrated when he began construction on his private residence, Kirkside, in St. Augustine.

Flagler completed the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana Hotel on the shores of Lake Worth in Palm Beach and extended his railroad to its service town, West Palm Beach, by 1894, founding Palm Beach and West Palm Beach.^[2] The Royal Poinciana Hotel was at the time the largest wooden structure in the world. Two years later, Flagler built the Palm Beach Inn (renamed Breakers Hotel Complex in 1901), overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach.