Carl Fisher
American
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1874/01/12 | Carl Fisher, the son of Albert H and Ida Graham Fisher, is born in Greensburg, Indiana. | Born | |||||
| 1904/00/00 | Fisher breaks a record, driving an automobile two miles in 2.02 minutes around a track. | Life | |||||
| 1909/00/00 | Carl Fisher and partner James A Allison make millions from selling their Prest-O-Lite automobile headlamp business to Union Carbide. | Developer | |||||
| 1909/08/19 | First automobile races begin at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with fifteen racers | Developer | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Speedway | |||
| 1913/00/00 | Beginning in 1913, Carl Fisher develops the Lincoln Highway, from New York to San Francisco. | Developer | Creation of the Lincoln Highway | ||||
| 1915/03/26 | John Collins, Carl Fisher and two Lummus Brothers (Miami businessmen) incorporate the town of Miami Beach. Among the early hotels Fisher built were the Flamingo Hotel (razed) in 1920 and the King Cole (razed) in 1925. | Developer | Miami Beach, Fl | Florida | |||
| 1916/00/00 | Developer | Dixie Highway-Hastings, Espanola and Bunnell Road | Espanola | ||||
| 1919/00/00 | Dana Dorsey sells Fisher Island, a barrier island located just south of Miami Beach, to Carl G Fisher. | Business | Miami Beach, Fl | Florida | |||
| 1920/00/00 | During Prohibition Carl Fisher, himself a heavily drinker, bootlegs alcohol to Henry Flagler's Royal Palm Hotel (razed 1930) and private yachts in the harbor. | Criminal | |||||
| 1927/00/00 | Situated at the north end of Star Island, the Caleb Bragg estate is opposite the deep channel dug by Carl Fisher that connects freshwater Lake Montauk and Gardiners Bay in Block Island Sound. | Developer | Caleb Bragg Estate | Montauk | |||
| 1927/04/00 | Montauk Manor opens in the spring of 1927 | Developer | Montauk Manor | Montauk | |||
| 1929/00/00 | Montauk Tennis Auditorium, also known as Montauk Playhouse, is built just below Montauk Manor as one of the central buildings of the Carl G Fisher's resort, 1928-1929. | Developer | Montauk Tennis Auditorium | Montauk | |||
| 1929/10/30 | Carl Fisher loses his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 | Developer | Stock Market Crash of 1929 | ||||
| 1938/00/00 | Carl Fisher develops the Caribbean Club to served as a poor-man's fishing retreat | Developer | Caribbean Club | Key Largo | |||
| 1938/00/00 | By 1938 Carl Fisher develops cirrhosis from years of excessive drinking. Periodically his body had to be drained of excess fluids, up to 20 pounds at a time. | Health | |||||
| 1939/07/15 | Following a lengthy illness, Carl G Fisher dies of a gastric hemorrhage in a Miami Beach hospital. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. | Died | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis |
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