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WHO WAS JAMES INGRAHAM: ZOOM WITH BARBARA POLEO @ 4:00 PM
Join us tonight for a zoom lecture with Barbara Poleo, an esteemed friend in the book shop world and the leading historian on Flagler’s right hand man and President of the Model Land company. “James Edmundson Ingraham, Fifty Years in Florida “ will chronicle the man who bore witness to the opening up on the east coast for Flagler. Ingraham arrived in Sanford, Florida in 1874. He developed the South Florida Railroad as well as numerous towns between Sanford and Tampa and in the center of Florida. He went on to be a trusted lieutenant to Henry Flagler and was instrumental in the development of the east coast of Florida and drainage of the Everglades. When he died in 1924 ,he was a Vice President of the Florida East Coast Railway and instrumental in the establishment of Royal Palm State Park.
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Sun, Jan 24, 2027 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM