Flagler County was created in 1917 from portions of southern St. Johns County and northern Volusia County. The county was named after Henry Morrison Flagler, a railroad and oil tycoon, who was a developer of the Florida East Coast Railway during the 1880s and 1900s. Bunnell, located 30 miles south of St. Augustine, was established as the county seat. Joseph Marion Hernandez, the first Hispanic to serve in the US Congress, had three successful sugar plantations in Flagler County until they were burned down by Native Americans in 1836, during the Second Seminole War. Marine Studios, later named Marineland, opened in 1938 as the world's first underwater motion picture studio. The economic driving force in the county until the early 1970s was its agriculture and forestry industry. In the late 1960s, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) purchased 22,000 acres of timberland and established the retirement community of Palm Coast. Today, the county thrives upon successful real estate and service industries.

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. (Johnson used he/him pronouns at the time of publication.) Velshi Banned Book Club Indie Bestseller Teen Vogue Recommended Read Buzzfeed Recommended Read People Magazine Best Book of the Summer A New York Library Best Book of 2020 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 ... and more!

Flagler County, Florida: A Centennial History features the 100 year journey from a sparsely populated rural and coastal area to one of the fastest growing areas in the United States. Discover many fascinating stories and interesting places and then wonder how many of them remained so reclusive until now.

Lost Plantations of Flagler County Large Florida land grants under the British and Second Spanish periods brought men of enterprise. Families such as Dupont, Russell, Bulow, Pellicer, Fish, Graham and Hernandez ventured here to set their roots in the rich hammock soil of Flagler County between St. Augustine and Ormond Beach Florida. Discover more of this Florida history with author William P. Ryan (Bill) as he searches for the Lost Plantations of Flagler County. Stand with him at the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park to know the flow of time. Many maps and photos are your guide as author Bill Ryan pulls together from many sources a picture of a far different Florida, one of commerce, investment and daring that was destroyed in the disastrous Seminole War of 1835. Bill Ryan concentrates on the county where he lives-Flagler County Florida where more than 27 of these great plantations may have existed. He also discovered what might have been the fate of John Joachim Bulow. Follow his story here and you decide. Author William P. (Bill) Ryan is a director of the Flagler County Historical Society. He retired to Florida from a career in high technology imaging, and was webmaster for the Flagler County Public Library's Florida Memories Project, and wrote the Old Kings Road series of Florida books. His first person writing style brings history alive. Five Old Kings Road series books include: The Search for Old Kings Road I am Grey Eyes a story of old Florida Osceola His Capture and Seminole Legends Bulow Gold Florida's Door to Time All offered on Amazon.com in stores and museums