Steps: 1,017,668
Miles: 433.30
About 30 miles south of the City of Saint Augustine, Florida, a place where our Railroad Tycoon, Henry Morrison Flagler had great impact, is the town of Flagler Beach. Flagler Beach was originally named "Ocean City Beach," and was renamed in 1925 after Henry Flagler passed away.
This photo was taken from the top of the Flagler Hotel which was located on the current Farmers Market land.
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Busy day at the beach - Parking is no problem.
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"The Peaceful Beach: It's the land that time forgot. Flagler Beach is often called the "Peaceful Beach" because of the lack of interest from the outside world. The coastal highway hugs the shore here and Flagler Beach is but steps away, yet it seems to be the most undiscovered coastal locales. Thriving in the 1920s, Flagler Beach died during the depression and not many advances have been made since then. Much of the area appears unchanged since the 1950s giving it a kind of off-the-beaten-path charm.
...The Flagler Beach Pier juts into the Atlantic where fishermen cast their lines. The break by the pier makes for some of the best surfing in the area, especially after a storm.
The six miles of sand is marked by numerous private dune crossovers that drop rather sharply to the narrow beach below a short bluff. The sand is often a ruddy orange colored by coquina which comes from an offshore formation."
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Charles Lindbergh of first to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean fame.
On Saturday, November 28, 1931 Colonel Charles Lindbergh left Miami before daylight in a borrowed U.S. Army airplane on a flight to New York. He had just completed the first voyage of the Pan American Airways American Clipper between Miami and Barranquilla, Colombia. While flying over Flagler Beach Lindbergh noticed the airfield and about fifteen miles north of town he encountered dense fog. Colonel Lindbergh turned around and landed on the grass runway at the Flagler Beach Municipal Airport at about 9:15 a.m.
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Charles Lindbergh ended up staying for a week at the Flagler Beach Hotel. He visited again in 1934. Additionally, Admiral Byrd (1932) and Amelia Earheart (1936) landed at the Flagler Beach Airport.
2 comments:
That was interesting. Never heard of Flagler Beach before.
I'd never heard of it either, but I've also never been known for my geographical knowledge either.
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