Beth Rogero Bowen

St. Augustine in the Gilded Age

St. Augustine was more than three centuries old when tourism awakened the sleepy Spanish village. Soon after Standard Oil partner Henry Flagler brough...

St. Augustine in the Roaring Twenties

The 1920s was a time of unprecedented growth in the nation's oldest city. Fueled by a land boom that began in South Florida, St. Augustine was inundat...

St. Augustine in the 1930s and 1940s

The Great Depression came early to St. Augustine with the end of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the stock market collapse in 1929. Hotels ...