Doyle Elam Carlton was born on the sixth of July in 1885, west of what is now known as Wauchula, Florida, to Albert Carlton and Martha McEwen Carlton. Even though the majority of references cite the same day in 1887 as his birthday, his father…

The Floridan Palace, formerly known as the Floridan Hotel, started construction in 1926 and officially opened the next year, the height of what is referred to as the “Roaring Twenties”. After the First World I, the early 1920s saw Florida’s…