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Location Beachside
If you enjoy riding bicycles for pleasure and exercise, you can ride along the Being situated between the Intracoastal and the Of Course ? Golf, Tennis and Swimming are also available in Demographics, Statistics, and Facts of the Fastest Growing County in the As of the census2 of 2000, there are 49,832 people, 21,294 households, and 15,672 families residing in the county. The population density is 40/km² (103/mi²). There are 24,452 housing units at an average density of 19/km² (50/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 87.27% White, 8.83% Black, or African American, 0.27% Native American, 1.17% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.96% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. 5.09% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 21,294 households out of which 21.10% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.80% are maried couples living together, 8.10% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.40% are non-families. 21.60% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.00% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.32 and the average family size is 2.67. In the county the population is spread out with 17.90% under the age of 18, 4.80% from 18 to 24, 20.30% from 25 to 44, 28.30% from 45 to 64, and 28.60% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 53.1 years, and 89.9% of the population has completed High School, 31% of a Bachelor´s dgree or higher and 11.6% have a Graduate or Professional Degree. Unemployment is only 2.4% in Flagler Beach, and work is never too far away from home. 0 years. For every 100 females there are 92.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.90 males. The median income for a household in the county is $40,214, and the median income for a family is $45,625. Males have a median income of $31,184 versus $24,865 for females. The per capita income for the county is $21,879. 8.70% of the population and 6.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 15.70% of thoe under the age of 18 and 4.40% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. History of Early Human Habitation While The chain of Spanish missions extending south and west of Contact with the Europeans and their livestock took a terrible toll on the Indian population. Diseases to which they had no immunity soon decimated their numbers, until at the end of this period the Timucuan nation ceased to exist. Hostilities between the Spanish, French, English and Indians destroyed many of the artifacts of the Indian civilization. It was in 1766, following the Treaty of Paris, that the British extended King's Road from Georgia to Jacksonville, St. Augustine, through present day Flagler County and on to the Turnbull Colony at New Smyrna. Bridges were constructed over Pellicer Creek and the Generous Spanish land grants provided an impetus for immigration during this period. Josia Dupont received an oral grant from the Spanish king, but Indian conflict made it impossible for him to establish a successful plantation at this early date. His son, Abraham Dupont, would return in 1825 with his family. Their descendants are among the earliest families to reside in James Russell also obtained a large land grant, but sold his interest to Charles Bulow shortly thereafter. Bulowville, as his plantation was called, boasted a sugar mill, and produced sugar cane, rice, cotton and indigo. Two hundred slaves cleared the land and worked it. The old growth forests and marshes through which you pass still look much the same as they did in this early period. Captain James Ormond I received another land grant in 1807 for a large parcel at the site of today's In the winter of 1831 naturalist John Audubon visited several plantations in Joseph Hernandez and John Bulow both initially supported Indian rights and attempted to maintain friendly relations with them. Subsequent Indian raids and the burning of Mala Compra Plantation changed Hernandez's outlook, and he began an active role in the local militia. His property at Conflict between European settlers and Seminole Indians is a consistent theme throughout this era. One result was that Old King's road fell into disrepair, and the bridges across Pellicer Creek and the General Joseph M. Hernandez was the region´s must influential political leader during the period between In 1844 Louisa Hernandez, the daughter of General Hernandez, married George Washington, a distant relative of the president. After Louisa´s untimely death, In 1886, wealthy industrialist Henry Cutting and his wife, Angela, built an elaborate hunting lodge on the The coming of the railroad that connected Henry Flagler purchased the narrow gauge railway that had served the area in 1885 and converted it to standard gauge, greatly increasing access for the cattle, timber, turpentine, potato and citrus producers of the interior. The county was named in his honor. An inland water route between In Flagler became a county in 1917 as a patchwork brought together from the southern portion of With the advantage of better transportation and infrastructure, World War II and the Post-War "Boom" The post war "boom" was a little late in arriving in January 2m 1830 ? May 20, 1913 was a United States tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. He is know as the father of Miami, Florida. Through the grain and distillery business, he met John D. Rockefeller, in Bellevue, Ohio. After a business disaster as a salt manufacturer in Saginaw, Michigan, he moved to Cleveland and soon joined Rockefeller and chemist and inventor Samuel Andrews in forming Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler in 1867, which they were soon to develop into Standard Oil. By 1872, it led the American oil refining industry, producint 10,000 barrels per day. In 1877, Standard Oil moved its headquqrters to New York City, and Flagler and his family moved there as well. He was joined by Henry H. Rogers, another leader of Standard Oil who also became involved in the development of America´s railroads, including those on nearby Staten Island, the Union Pacific Railroad, and later in West Virginia, where he eventually built the remarkable Virginian Railway to transport coal to Hampton Roads, Virginia. Henry Flager's non-Standard Oil interests went in a different direction than Henry Rogers', however, when in 1878, on the advice of his physician, Flagler traveled to Jacksonville, Florida for the winter with his first wife, Mary (née Harkness) Flagler, who was quite ill. Two years after she died in 1881, he married again. Ida Alice (née Shrouds) Flagler had been a caregiver for Mary Flagler. After their wedding, the couple traveled to St. Augustine, Florida. Flagler found the city charming, but the hotel facilities and transportation systems inadequate. He recognized Florida's potential to attract out-of-state visitors. Though Flagler remained on the Board of Directors of Standard Oil, he gave up his day-to-day involvement in the corporation in order to pursue his interests in Florida. He returned to St. Augustine in 1885 and began construction on the 540-room Ponce de Leon Hotel. Realizing the need for a sound transportation system to support his hotel ventures, Flagler purchased the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax Railroad, the first railroad in what would become known as the "Flagler System" or the Florida East Coast Railway. The Hotel Ponce de Leon, now part of Flagler College, opened on January 10, 1888 and was an instant success. Two years later, Flagler 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. 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. 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 The Breakers Hotel in 1901) overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach. Flagler originally intended for West Palm Beach to be the terminus of his railroad system, but during 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the area, causing Flagler to rethink his original decision. Sixty miles south, the town today known as Miami was reportedly unharmed by the freeze. To further convince Flagler to continue the railroad to Miami, he was offered land in exchange for laying rail tracks from private landowners, including Julia Tuttle, who ran a trading post on the Miami River, the Florida East Coast Canal and Transportation Company, and the Boston and Florida Atlantic Coast Land Company. This led to the development of Miami, which was only an unincorporated area at the time. Flagler encouraged fruit farming and settlement along his railway line and made many gifts to build hospitals, churches and schools in Florida. Flagler's railroad, renamed the Florida East Coast Railway in 1895, reached Biscayne Bay by 1896. Flagler dredged a channel, built streets, instituted the first water and power systems, and financed the city's first newspaper, The Metropolis. When the city was incorporated in 1896, its citizens wanted to honor the man responsible for its growth by naming it "Flagler". He declined the honor, persuading them to use an old Indian name, "Miami". In 1897, Flagler opened the exclusive Royal Palm Hotel there. He became know as the Father of Miami, Florida. " Flagler's second wife, the former Ida Alice Shrouds, had been institutionalized for mental illness since 1895. In 1902, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that made incurable insanity grounds for divorce, opening the way for Flagler to remarry. On Autust 24 of that year, Flagler married his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan, and the couple soon moved into their new Palm Beach estate, Whitehall, a 55-room Italianate villa designed by the New York-based firm of Carrere and Hastings. Built as a wedding present to Mary Lily in 1902, Whitehall was a 60,000 square foot (5,600 m²), winter retreat that established the Palm Beach season for the wealthy of America's Gilded Age. By 1905 Flagler decided that his Florida East Coast Railway should be extended from Biscayne Bay to Key West, a point 128 miles past the end of the Florida penninsula. At the time, Key West was Florida´s most populous city and it was also the United States´ closest deep water port to the canal that the U.S. government proposed to build in Panama. Flagler wanted to take advante of the additional trade with Cuba and Latin America as well as the increased trade with the west that the Panama Canal would bring. In 1912, the Florida Overseas Railroad was completed to Key West!
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