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Founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller, Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) encourages, inspires, and stimulates businesses to support the arts in the workplace, in education, and in the community. The BCA committee provides leadership on key initiatives including messaging, advocacy, and strategic alliances within the private-sector community.
About the Flagler County Cultural Council. FC3 envisions a vibrant community, unified in support of the arts, history, and cultural heritage as essential enrichment for the residents and economy of Flagler County. Please join us! Members and volunteers are the backbone of not-for-profit organizations. With your help we will nurture art, history ...
Oct 2, 2019 · Colorado. lead. My grandfather, David Rockefeller Sr., founded the Business Committee for the Arts in 1967 with a mission: to inspire business leaders to support the arts in the workplace, in education, and in the community. He believed that when businesses partner with the arts, it facilitates a mutually beneficial and inspiring collaboration.
Oct 23, 2023 · FC3, the Flagler County Cultural Council, has big ambitions--among them, to be known as the county's designated arts agency, as the driver, supporter, coordinator and promoter of local arts ...
- 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...
The show is at Expressions Art Gallery inside Grand Living Realty, 2298 Colbert Lane, Palm Coast, FL, and online at https://www.cpsa117.org. Our reception is on Sunday, October 6, 2024, from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Discover the benefits of flagler county cultural council membership. Members and volunteers are the backbone of not-for-profit ...
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Sep 28, 1986 · When Standard Oil (Ohio) was established in 1870, Flagler drew up the papers and received 1,333 shares, just about half as many as the 2,667 shares that Rockefeller took for himself.
