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Top 10 Top 10 Historical Movers and Shapers
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1. William Brickell
One of the first men to take advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862.
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2. Henry M. Flagler
The legal mastermind (1830–1913) who opened up Florida through railroads and luxury construction.
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3. Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
Elected in 1905, he enacted Florida’s first conservation laws and also a program for draining the Everglades.
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4. Carl Fisher
An energetic developer in the early 1900s, Fisher was the first visionary owner of Miami Beach.
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5. George Merrick
The imaginative mind behind the development of Coral Gables (see Merrick’s Coral Gables Fantasies).
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6. The Deering Brothers
James and Charles built homes that are now major attractions (see Charles Deering Estate).
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7. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The first of Florida’s environmentalists, who single-handedly saved the Everglades. She died in 1998, at the age of 108.
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8. Barbara Capitman
The driving force behind the movement to save the Art Deco hotels (see The Story of Tropical Deco).
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9. Julia Tuttle
The dynamic pioneer who convinced Henry Flagler to extend his railroad down to Miami, in 1896.
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10. Chief Jim Billie
Controversial Seminole chief who brought wealth to his tribe in the 1980s, by building casinos on reservations.
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