Henry Bradley Plant, born in Connecticut in 1819, started out on Connecticut steamboats and as an express messenger, ran the Southern Express Company through the Civil War, and later assembled the Plant System of railroads, steamships and hotels that opened Florida’s Gulf coast. This admiring biography covers his ancestry, business career and private life.
A source for the Gilded Age development of Florida and the New South, from a frankly reverent point of view. Download the free EPUB.