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The Storm That Killed the Railroad
On Labor Day 1935 the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States crossed the Upper Keys, drowned the veterans' camps, wrecked the rescue train and ended Flagler's railroad to Key West.
The Dispatch · No. 01
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history · 7 min
How Tarpon Springs Became the Sponge Capital
A Philadelphia businessman, a sponge buyer from Leonidio and 500 Greek divers turned a river town into the largest sponge port in America, until the beds died.
history · 7 min
The Pencil Mills of Cedar Key
How a Gulf island cut the cedar for America's pencils, and the morning in 1896 that ended it.
history · 7 min
The Royal Poinciana, the Largest Wooden Hotel Ever Built
Henry Flagler's Palm Beach hotel took 1,000 men nine months to raise in 1893 and a crew of 102 unemployed men over a year to pull down.
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