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Floridays
3:19 pm
Thu July 19, 2012
Gilded Age inventor, aviator helped develop Sewall's Point
By Janie Gould
Credit Elliott Museum Collection
Willoughby used his seaplane to travel between Sewall's Point and Palm Beach.
Hugh Willoughby also is credited with building the world's first seaplane, which he named the Pelican. Stuart researcher and writer Alice Luckhardt discusses the life of this remarkable man, who also made a historic trek across the Everglades in 1892.
