Episode 106
A Look At How Henry Plant Put Tampa On The Map
Historian Canter Brown takes a look at the man who literally put Tampa on the map. He has written a new book, Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and the New South."
Florida Matters · Robin Sussingham, Steve Newborn
February 28, 202027m 55s
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Show Notes
Canter Brown details Plant's friendship with fellow Florida pioneer Henry Flagler, and why he felt compelled to build a railroad in the late 19th Century from St. Augustine to the backwater hamlet of Tampa.