“Are you sure this railway can be built?” Henry M. Flagler, co-founder of Standard Oil and “Father of Miami,” posed this question to his chief aide, Joseph R. Parrott, in the winter of 1904. With Parrott’s affirmation, Flagler embarked upon an ambitious, unprecedented engineering feat to connect Key West, 130 miles south of Miami, with […]| The History Bandits
The Significance of the Tennessee-Savannah River Route in early America: In February of 1701, a party of three Frenchmen lowered their birchbark canoe into the frigid headwaters of a snowmelt strea…| The History Bandits