A Century in The Sun: Henry Flagler & The Making of Modern Florida
2012
0h 57m
A one-hour documentary that tells the story of how Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler came to Florida in the late 1800s, built a railroad and hotel empire on the last American frontier, and launched a population boom that lasts a hundred years.
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