From boom to bust

Hailey Heseltine reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com It was the Roaring Twenties, and the postwar world seemed to be finding new life with its economic prosperity. That decade, Florida entered an era which transformed the state like never before. Prior to the 1920s, Florida's reputation was foremost an agricultural state. In the decades leading up to then, investors, industrialists and railroad tycoons like Henry Flagler and Henry B. Plant had already seen a potential for tourism, developments, business and, perhaps most of all, profit. The problem was, until then, traveling to Florida for leisure was mostly limited to the wealthy, elderly or ill who had been prescribed oceanside living by