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Henry Bradley Plant (* 27. Oktober 1819 in Branford, Connecticut; † 23. Juni 1899) war ein US-amerikanischer Eisenbahnmagnat und Pionier der touristischen Erschließung des westlichen Florida. Sein Lebenswerk war das sogenannte Plant System .
Henry Bradley Plant (October 27, 1819 – June 23, 1899), was a businessman, entrepreneur, and investor involved with many transportation interests and projects, mostly railroads, in the southeastern United States.
Henry Bradley Plant (October 27, 1819 – June 23, 1899), founder of the Plant System of railroads and steamship lines, was born into a modest farming family in Branford, Connecticut. At the age of six, he lost his father and younger sister to typhus fever and was raised by his mother, step-father and grandmother.
History. During the 1880’s, Henry Bradley Plant was building an empire of railroads, steamships and hotels. He wanted that empire to have a palace and that palace was the Tampa Bay Hotel. The hotel was built by Plant personally, not investors, at a cost of $2,500,000 and an additional $500,000 for furnishings.
The Chronology of Henry Plant, the Plant System & the Tampa Bay Hotel is the Henry Plant Museum’s authoritative timeline of Plant’s personal and professional life, development of the Plant System and the Tampa Bay Hotel. 1819 Henry B. Plant born in Branford, CT to Betsey (Bradley) and Anderson Plant, a farmer. 1837 18 year-old Henry begins ...
Henry Bradley Plant war ein US-amerikanischer Eisenbahnmagnat und Pionier der touristischen Erschließung des westlichen Florida. Sein Lebenswerk war das sogenannte Plant System.
1. März 2021 · Resembling many of his contemporaries, Henry Bradley Plant (1819–1899) lived a Horatio Alger–style rags-to-riches existence, rising from an impoverished, albeit old-Yankee-stock Connecticut, family to become one of the wealthiest men in America.
