Some people have been known to put their stamp on a location in history but none more than Henry Morrison Flagler who put his stamp on the state of Florida in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  Flagler was the brain behind John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and one of its three founding partners.  He would eventually cash in his stock and move to Florida where he felt the rich would eventually come to play.  After building the largest hotel in the world in St. Augustine at that time, Flagler set his sites on Palm Beach where he built the Royal Poinciana and Breakers hotels along with the Florida East Coast Railway to bring in wealthy. 

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