Flagler Boulevard

The portion of Southwest 102nd Street, from South Dixie Highway to Southwest 74 Avenue, is named for Henry M. Flagler and is located in the Flagler Grove neighborhood. Mr. Flagler, a partner in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, was a wealthy industrialist who built the Florida East Coast Railway along the east coast of Florida and to the Florida Keys. He is regarded as the “father” of Miami.