Long Key
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Long Key Fishing Camp
Long Key: Henry Flagler's island getaway for the rich & famous
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- ISBN 9780813049762
- Weight: 441g
- Dimensions: 162 x 243mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2014
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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With a modest two-story hotel and various small cottages, Long Key Fishing Camp offered a dramatic departure from the usual opulence of Henry Flagler’s hotels that dotted the east coast of Florida. The final resort opened during his lifetime, Long Key lacked palatial structures with manicured grounds, extravagant recreational facilities, and world-class amenities. Prospective visitors were frankly warned not to expect the same level of comfort provided at sister properties. Yet still they came.
Carefully researched and replete with photographs and maps never before published, Long Key offers the first history of this unique destination. Historian Thomas Knowles recounts the extraordinary tale of how a railroad work camp became a world-renowned sport fishing centre and a preferred vacation spot of a cadre of well-to-do individuals that included businessmen, poets, nobles, and politicians.
This rustic island, with its unparalleled fishing grounds and cabins named after local fish, “The Kingfish,” “The Porpoise,” “The Barracoota,” “The Shark,” inspired fierce loyalty among its clientele, even during the dark years of the Great Depression. Zane Grey, Lou Gehrig, Wallace Stevens, Charles Kettering, Andrew Mellon, and Herbert Hoover were among those who returned season after season.
Completely destroyed by the fatal 1935 Labour Day Hurricane, the first cat¬egory 5 storm to make landfall in the United States, Flagler’s unique island getaway has been largely forgotten. Knowles expertly depicts this slice of long-lost Florida and resurrects the famous personalities who found refuge from the limelight at Long Key.
Carefully researched and replete with photographs and maps never before published, Long Key offers the first history of this unique destination. Historian Thomas Knowles recounts the extraordinary tale of how a railroad work camp became a world-renowned sport fishing centre and a preferred vacation spot of a cadre of well-to-do individuals that included businessmen, poets, nobles, and politicians.
This rustic island, with its unparalleled fishing grounds and cabins named after local fish, “The Kingfish,” “The Porpoise,” “The Barracoota,” “The Shark,” inspired fierce loyalty among its clientele, even during the dark years of the Great Depression. Zane Grey, Lou Gehrig, Wallace Stevens, Charles Kettering, Andrew Mellon, and Herbert Hoover were among those who returned season after season.
Completely destroyed by the fatal 1935 Labour Day Hurricane, the first cat¬egory 5 storm to make landfall in the United States, Flagler’s unique island getaway has been largely forgotten. Knowles expertly depicts this slice of long-lost Florida and resurrects the famous personalities who found refuge from the limelight at Long Key.
Thomas Neil Knowles is the author of Category 5: The 1935 Labour Day Hurricane. Born and raised in Key West, he is a fourth-generation Conch whose ancestors moved from the Bahamas to the island in the mid-1800s.He now lives in Tallahassee.
