Flagler Monument Island
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The Flagler Memorial Monument is sited on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, between Miami Beach and Miami. Built in 1920-21 by Carl Fisher, the developer of Miami Beach, it memorializes Henry Flagler who turned his profits as founding partner of Standard Oil into developing railroads and property on the east coast of Florida, starting in Saint Augustine and ending with the construction of the Overseas Railroad to Key West. The monument consists of a 96’ tall cast concrete obelisk with four cast stone allegorical figures around the base depicting Education, Industry, Prosperity, and Pioneer. The isolated island site has left the monument vulnerable to weather exposure (wind, floods, hurricanes and the occasional lightening strike), salt damage, biological growth, coating failures, stone losses, and assaults from vandalism.