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See Florida history in motion at the Florida Agricultural Museum, where dedicated re-enactors in period clothing tell the story of Florida’s past and how it pertains to the present. Established in 1917, Flagler County has a rich history. Take a self-guided walking tour experience our heritage through various museums, parks, and sites.
- Agriculture and The Developers
- Highways
- Later Beachside Developments
St. Johns Park
The land boom in present-day Flagler County started on the west side of the county in the early 1900s at the settlement called Omega. The area had been settled in the early 1880s by the James Andrew Burnsed, Mathew (Mack) Davis, Jesse Valentine Malphurs, and James C. Miller families A post office was established at Omega on 15 Nov 1902. Remember Georgia Senator George W Deen? George was on the board of directors for the St Johns Development Company. The first meeting of the company was held a...
Bunnell
Remember Isaac I. Moody, Jr. and Major James Frank Lambert and the 30,000 acres of land they purchase from Senator Deen? These gentlemen were successful in the turpentine business but realized that some good farmland was in the acreage they now held. On June 24, 1909, just six months after the St. Johns Development Company was formed on the western side of the county, the Bunnell Development Company was chartered with Isaac I. Moody, Jr. as president; Claude E Stewart of Jacksonville as vice-...
Dupont
Remember Utley James White? After his 26,000-acre tract in Hastings had been developed to a large extent, Mr. White disposed of his interests there and again engaged in the lumber trade, buying thirty-two thousand acres in the Haw Creek country, which mostly stood in pine and cypress. Here, he built mills at Dupont to manufacture his lumber and built eighteen miles of timber railroad, twelve miles of which was narrow gauge first-class road. Cutting down the timber, he developed the Haw Creek...
The Dixie Highway and U.S. 1 Early county developer Isaac I. Moody, Jr., was elected President of the Board of County Commissioners for St Johns County in 1912. Newspaper accounts show that in Apr 1913 he was in St Augustine with his wife to hear a speech by William Jennings Bryan. They then left for Washington, DC where they attended the Good Road...
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
At the beginning of this history, I mentioned General Joseph Marion Hernandez and his Bella Vista Plantation. Bella Vista is now our beautiful Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. Between 1923 and 1936, the general’s former plantation very nearly became a subdivision. General Hernandez’s daughter, Lucia Catalina (Louisa Caroline) married George Lawrence Washington in St. Augustine on 07 Jan 1845 and this family became the owners of Bella Vista Plantation which later became known as Washington...
Marineland
Marineland, located on State Road A1A, just south of the St Johns County line, opened in 1938 as the world’s first underwater motion picture studio. A new word, “oceanarium,” was coined to describe it; denoting a place where various species of marine life lived together, as they do in the sea, rather than kept segregated, as they had traditionally been in aquaria. The founding group of “Marine Studios,” the original name given the facility, included men who shared an interest in film making a...
Palm Coast
On Monday afternoon, 16 Jun 1969, more than 175 people attended a cocktail party at the Princess Estate in northern Flagler County to hear the announcement made by ITT-Rayonier as to their plans for the development of a 20,000-acre tract of land in NE Flagler County. ITT-Rayonier had purchased 6,000 acres from prominent Flagler County businessman Lewis Edward Wadsworth III and others. This was added to their newly acquired 13,000-acre Lehigh Portland Cement Company tract and the 70,000 acres...
2805 S. Oceanshore Blvd. (AIA)Flagler Beach, Florida 32136Tel: 386-439-3344. Snack Jack has been at this same beachfront location since 1947; that qualifies it as an Old Florida eating establishment. Snack Jack Ocean View Deck. It is directly on the ocean and just about every booth or table has a view of the ocean.
The Flagler Beach Historical Museum is located in the heart of the historic seaside community of Flagler Beach, one block west of the fishing pier. Our established collections range from pre-historic, Native American and colonial plantation artifacts to images and items from our town’s roaring 1920s and World War II encounters with German ...
Flagler Beach, Florida. Flagler Beach is a city in Flagler County in the U.S. state of Florida. The population was 5,160 at the 2020 census. Flagler Beach is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL metropolitan statistical area. It is named for oil tycoon and Florida railroad developer Henry Flagler, who was a key figure in the ...
Although Flagler county is one of the newer counties of the state, the history of the territory which it now embraces is interwoven with the earliest history of Florida. Less than two months after the founding of St. Augustine, in 1565, Pedro Menendez de Aviles led an expedition of 150 men across this section to attack a colony of French who were building a fort at Canaveral.
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Flagler Beach Historical Museum. 97 reviews. #5 of 17 things to do in Flagler Beach. History Museums. Closed now. 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Write a review. About. Flagler Beach Historical Museum collections range from pre-historic, Native American, and colonial plantation artifacts to images and items from our town's roaring 1920s and World War II ...
