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FLAGLER - Chapter 2: The Iron Frontier


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Flagler and Plant were racing each other to build a railroad to Miami. Who got there first doesn't matter in retrospect. What matters is the things they built on the way, the heartaches they faced, and the legacies that still carry on to this day.

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Indian Summer by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Out of Paradise by Lobo Loco

Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco

Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco

Visions of 2018 by Lobo Loco

Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco

 

Sources

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford

https://www.plantmuseum.com/about/history 

http://hbp.sunstyledesign.com/?page_id=169

https://www.plantmuseum.com/discover/learn/chronology

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-05-10-9205090446-story.html

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/IngrahamJE.htm

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00095319/00001/1x

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/TuttleJ.htm

https://www.sanfordfl.gov/about-sanford/history-and-historic-preservation

https://ormondhistory.org/the-hotel-ormond/

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Panic_of_1893

https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AAR-Short-History-American-Freight-Railroads.pdf 

https://www.flaglermuseum.us/history/whitehall

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