In 1886, a wise widower, 39-year old inventor THOMAS ALVA EDISON honeymooned with his bride Mina Mill, 20, here in St. Augustine, Florida.
Frugal Edison et ux stayed at Standard Oil monopoly co-founder Henry Morrison Flagler's Alcazar Hotel, now our City Hall and Lightner Museum, the lowest-priced of the initial three hotels in Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway empire.
Monopolistic genius Henry Flagler began the transformation of Florida into what it is today.
Thanks to Carly Seely for sharing this colorized 1911 photo, taken the same year that Flagler watched in horror as his globe-girdling Standard Oil Trust scheme was ordered divested into 27 companies by the United States Supreme Court.
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