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2. The Breakers (hotel) - Wikipedia

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   The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 534 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida.During the 1895–96 winter season, business tycoon Henry Flagler opened the first Breakers resort, then the only oceanfront lodging south of Daytona Beach, to accommodate additional tourists due to the popularity of his Royal Poinciana Hotel.

3. Florida East Coast Railway - Wikipedia

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   [3]: 68 By March 22 of the same year, the railroad system reached what is today known as West Palm Beach. Flagler constructed the Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach overlooking the Lake Worth Lagoon. He also built the Breakers Hotel on the ocean side of Palm Beach, and Whitehall, his private 55-room, 60,000 square foot (5,600 m 2) winter home.

4. Henry Flagler - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Poinciana Hotel was at the time the largest wooden structure in the world. Two years later, Flagler built the Palm Beach Inn (renamed The Breakers in 1901), overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach. Flagler originally intended West Palm Beach to be the terminus of his railroad system, but in 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the ...

5. Memory lane: A mule-drawn trolley ride got you from Hotel ...

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   The mule-drawn trolley in Palm Beach heading west at the turn of the 20th century as it passes the Palm Beach Inn, which was renamed The Breakers in 1901. ... head east to Flagler’s other 1890s ...

6. The Breakers: Five things you may not know about the Palm ...

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   Unique facts you may not know: The Breakers was known as The Palm Beach Inn when founder Henry Flagler opened the oceanfront luxury hotel in 1896.

7. 'The Breakers is on fire!': 120 years ago, blaze wiped out ...

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   In 1903, when a lake-to-ocean swath of then-still-mostly-undeveloped Palm Beach boasted two resort hotels, a monstrous blaze destroyed one of them, leaving local pioneers struggling to make sense ...