Garfield Wood
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Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to trav
Garfield Wood in 1938
Miss America 2, a triple Liberty V-12-powered 1921 Harmsworth Trophy winner, and second of nine Miss Americas built for Wood
Fisher Island, Florida
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Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name in the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 ce
Garfield Wood
…lightning rods to farmers, and to demonstrate their effectiveness he invented an induction coil device to mimic lightning. In the 1950s, Wood acquired Fisher Island in South Florida's Biscayne Bay, the last of a series of millionaires to occupy it as a one-family island retreat. He sold it to a development group…
Aerial view of Fisher Island
Buildings under construction in the summer of 2001
Aerial view of Fisher Island in 2024
View from the Palazzo Del Mare apartment driveway