![]() ![]() By building luxury hotels in Jacksonville, Palm Beach, and Miami, he made vacationing in Florida attractive to his wealthy contemporaries such as Rockefeller. He also played a part in popularizing Florida as a tourist attraction since he had a pivotal role in extending railroad lines to Florida cities. Last Train to Paradise is the story of Henry Flagler, an American industrialist best known as a founder of Standard Oil. In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature's wrath. The railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," until its total destruction in 1935's deadly storm of the century. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean-an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. ![]() ![]() The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad-one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. ![]()
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