THIS WEEK IN FLAGLER HISTORY THE FLAGLER/PALM COAST NEWS-TRIBUNE Palm Coast, Florida Wednesday, October 15, 2014 The Flagler Tribune Bunnell, Florida Thursday, October 19, 1939 State Plans to Widen Highway As an indication of the intention of the State Road Department to eventually widen U.S. Highway One from Jacksonville to Miami, the town commission adopted a resolution Monday night in an effort to cooperate with the highway department in securing additional right-of-way along each side of the highway through Bunnell. It was stressed by town officials that the negotiations are only tentative. The Flagler Tribune Bunnell, Florida Thursday, October 15, 1964 Steflik Receives Red Cross Award Louis M. Steflik, director of the East Volusia/Flagler County Red Cross Chapter, received a letter this week from Executive Director Frazier C. Jones reporting on the activities of the chapter during Hurricanes Cleo and Dora. Mr. Jones said the chapter was extremely active in Flagler County before, during and after the storms, in disaster preparations and relie Complied by Aaron London The first photo appeared with today’s column with the cutline: “Members and officials break ground for the Flagler Beach Baptist Church in April 1981.” *************************************** The second photo: The Old First Baptist Church of Flagler Beach which was constructed in the mid-1920s (I think). Louis M. Steflik in the second story is: Louis Martin Steflik was born in Flagler County’s Bimini farming district on the west side of the county to Frank Steven Steflik and Mary Szucs on 21 May 1931. Louis’ father moved to the United States from Hungary in 1914 but due to WW I, his wife was unable to join him in the states until 1921. He worked in a brickyard, a barbed wire company and finally found his way to the Kentucky Coal Mines. He was a coal miner in Kentucky and West Virginia for13 years. The Stefliks learned about Florida through a Hungarian Jew who had come here looking for a better life for his family than the Kentucky coal mines. Frank purchased 10 acres on an unpaved road (SW corner of SR 100 and CR 305) for his farm. Frank returned to Kentucky and moved his family, consisting of his wife, two sons and a daughter, here arriving in September 1927. They shipped their possessions on a box car and stayed in Bunnell about a week before beginning construction on their farm house in the Bimini section. It was 1938 before they could afford a car - they had a truck first to huckster their vegetables. He farmed here until 1950 when he retired. Their acreage had increased from 10 to over 1,000 by 1979. Louis, or Louie as some folks call him, graduated from Bunnell High School and the University of Florida with a B.S. degree in agriculture in 1954. Three years later he received his master’s degree in Entomology and farmed until his retirement. He served many years as a Flagler County Commissioner. He and his wife Joy, live in Flagler Beach Historically Speaking - Sisco
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