The East Coast Railway was
developed by businessman Henry Morrison Flagler, who had been a partner
of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil. He began by merging several
different railways, beginning with the purchase of the Jacksonville, St.
Augustine and Halifax River Railway. Next, he acquired the the St.
John's Railway, the St. Augustine and Palatka Railway, and the St. Johns
and Halifax River Railway, and by 1889 he had created a fully functional
railway system from Jacksonville to Daytona. Starting in 1892, he ceased
buying existing railways and started having new lines built - by 1894
his lines reached as far south as West Palm Beach - and new towns
started to develop along the railway. On September 7th, 1895 the name of
the railway was changed from the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax
River Railway to the Florida East Coast Railway Company. 7 months later
the track reached Biscayne Bay (present day downtown Miami), and by 1905
his line stretched all the way through the Florida Keys. |
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