Flagler Beach Centennial Celebration Seeks Volunteers

The organizers for the upcoming Flagler Beach Centennial Celebration are seeking volunteers to help plan the event ahead of the city’s 100th anniversary. The Flagler Beach Celebrates Committee are holding a meeting next week at City Hall to go over the details.

The meeting will be open to any residents, business owners, and ‘friends of the city’ who wish to attend. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to share their ideas and talents to help make the celebration worthy of the monumental anniversary which it celebrates. Those wishing to attend should go to the Flagler Beach City Commission Chambers in City Hall (105 S 2nd St, Flagler Beach) on Thursday, August 1st at 4:00 pm.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for students who aspire careers in marketing, communications and management,” the city said in a statement sent out Friday. “Attendees will hear reports from the Events, Fundraising, and Communications subcommittees and can sign up to join the teams that will spearhead different aspects of the celebration.”

The City of Flagler Beach was officially incorporated on April 16th, 1925. It began as a development by George Moody and his brother Isaac, the latter of whom is the namesake of Moody Blvd and one of the earliest founding fathers of Flagler County. What originated as a small homestead along the coast between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach would soon become one of the beloved small beach towns on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.

The vote to incorporate Flagler Beach, originally known as Ocean City Beach, into a city was held ten months after the community received its post office. The vote was 41 in favor and 10 against, according to historical records assembled by the late Sisco Deen in his book, Flagler County (Images of America).

Also detailed in Deen’s book, the first iteration of the Flagler Beach Municipal Pier was opened on the Fourth of July in 1928, spanning six-hundred feet at a cost of $75,000 to build. Over its first century of existence the city would undergo many changes, and feature a litany of once-defining elements that no longer exist. There was once a baseball diamond in the place of the modern City Hall. In the place of what’s now known as the vacant Bank of America building was once an apartment building, and a hotel after that. Where the Topaz Motel is currently located was once a mansion built by Dana Fuquay in the 20’s. The mansion’s original structure still exists as the hotel office building and restaurant vendor location.