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The Florida Keys are a wilderness of flowering jungles and shimmering seas, a jade
necklace of mangrove-fringed islands dangling toward the tropics. But they are also
a string of narrow islands overburdened by a growing population and booming
tourism. Unfortunately, in the Keys you can't have one without the other.

The Keys were only sparsely populated until the early 20th century. In 1905,
however, railroad magnate Henry Flagler began building the extension of his Florida
railroad south from Homestead to Key West. His goal was to establish a rail link to his
steamships that sailed between Key West and Havana, just 90 miles across the
Straits of Florida. The railroad arrived at Key West in 1912 and remained a lifeline of
commerce until the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 washed out much of its roadbed.
The Overseas Highway, built over the railroad's old roadbeds and bridges, was
completed in 1938.

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