September, Some's cafeteria...................Biscayne Bay...................Startup...........hmmmmmm......kinda like Hen Flagler really started up Florida........cruise ships in the background of many scenes.............u see tons of those all over Miami and Ft. L................................

Of course, it was already an Indian city.........................................whitey just took it.......like the latinos are taking the USA now.................complaining about racism.........from whites........which there is tons.................not from me.............and then they are racist towards blacks............I have never seen such pathetic people.............who go around complaining about stuff..........then doing the exact same thing as the people they are complaining about..........





In September 1895, Flagler's system was incorporated as the Florida East Coast Railway Company and by 1896, it reached Biscayne Bay, the largest and most accessible harbor on Florida's east coast. To further develop the area surrounding the Miami railroad station, Flagler dredged a channel, built streets, instituted the first water and power systems, and financed the town's first newspaper, the Metropolis. When the town incorporated in 1896, its citizens wanted to honor the man responsible for the city's development by naming it, "Flagler." He declined the honor, persuading them to keep the city's old Indian name, "Miami."

Never one to rest on his laurels, Flagler next sought perhaps his greatest challenge: the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city of almost 20,000 inhabitants located 128 miles beyond the end of the Florida peninsula. Flagler became particularly interested in linking Key West to the mainland after the United States announced in 1905 the construction of the Panama Canal. Key West, the United States's closest deep-water port to the Canal, could not only take advantage of Cuban and Latin America trade, but the opening of the Canal would allow significant trade possibilities with the west.
The construction of the overseas railway required many engineering innovations as well as vast amounts of labor and monetary resources. At one time during construction, four thousand men were employed. During the seven year construction, five hurricanes threatened to halt the project. Despite the hardships, the final link of the Florida East Cost Railway was completed in 1912, the year before Flagler's death.
  FEC Chief Engineer William Krome
Linking the entire east coast of Florida, a state that at the time was largely an uninhabited frontier, demanded a great deal of foresight and perseverance. Nearly a century later, the effects of Henry Flagler's incredible accomplishments can still be seen clearly throughout Florida.
FURTHER READING:Akin, Edward N. Flagler: Rockefeller Partner & Florida Baron, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1988.
Chandler, David Leon. Henry Flagler, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986.
Gordon, John Steel. "The Master Builder," Audacity Magazine (Winter 1996): 40-53.
Lefevre, Edwin. "Flagler and Florida," Everybody's Magazine 22 (1910): 168-186.
Martin, Sidney Walter. Florida's Flagler, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1977.
Sammons, Sandra Wallus. Henry Flagler Builder of Florida, Florida: Tailored Tours Publications, Inc., 1993.
Wiggins, Larry. "The Birth of the City of Miami," Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida (1995): 5-38.
Florida East Coast Railway. Announcement: Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, 1912, reprinted, Key West, Florida: The Conch Tour Train, 1985.
Gallagher, Dan. Pigeon Key and the Seven-Mile Bridge 1908-1912, Marathon, Florida: Pigeon Key Foundation, 1995.
Parks, Pat. The Railroad that Died at Sea, Florida: Langley Press, Inc., 1968.