For many visitors staying on the lake at Henry Flagler’s huge and now-long-gone Hotel Royal Poinciana, that meant riding a trolley pulled by a mule.

For many visitors staying on the lake at Henry Flagler’s huge and now-long-gone Hotel Royal Poinciana, that meant riding a trolley pulled by a mule.

The old hotel, opened in 1901 by Frederic Shoff, was demolished in the early 1970s. Arbogast showed other pictures of the River View, a major resort hotel until the 1930s. It had its own tiny ...

For many visitors staying on the lake at Henry Flagler’s huge and now-long-gone Hotel Royal Poinciana, that meant riding a trolley pulled by a mule.