On this Day January 22, 1912. – Henry Flagler Arrives in Key West
Crowd Welcomes Henry Flagler’s Arrival in Key West On January 22, 1912, the nearly twenty thousand residents of the city of Key West, Florida, located on a small island some 128 miles south of the Florida peninsula, observed the completion of an overseas rail connection to the mainland. The Florida East Coast Railway served the …
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