From Farming Community to Urban Village
by
Benjamin B. Little, Wilton Manors Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The Seminoles once roamed the land that encompasses Wilton Manors, until Henry Flagler brought his East Coast Railway through the untamed wilderness in the late nineteenth century. By 1910, the railway had transformed the area into a viable farming and shipping hamlet known as Colohatchee, until a wealthy...