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History
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Written by Community residents
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William F. Tilton owned Flagler Estates known as Gopher Ridge (Ten Thousand Acres). He gave the land to his six sons it became known as The Six-T Ranch Corp. On July 8, 1969 they sold it to World Wide Development Company of Florida Corp. World Wild cleared the land with the intention of farming. However, it was not financially feasible, so World Wide sold it to Florida General equities who began the unrecorded subdivision now known as Flagler Estates.
Now after almost 30 years the community has finally started to grow, with approximately 650 residents in the St. Johns County Section. this is an increase of about 100 new families this year (1999). This area is one of the fastest growing in St Johns and Flagler Counties mainly because of affordable land prices and Open Rural zoning.
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