Driving along the Overseas Highway through the Florida Keys, it is easy to have your sense of direction confused. When entering Key Largo and heading down the island chain like birds for the winter, ...

Flagler now planned a railroad that would reach from Miami to Key West, spanning seven miles ... and in 1935 fell to a brutal Labor Day hurricane. Henry Flagler died at age 83, on May 20, 1913 ...

Today's Overseas Highway was initially constructed as a railroad ... Henry Morrison Flagler and completed when he stepped off the train in Key West in 1916. But when a hurricane all but destroyed ...