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Because his wife, Mary Flagler, was having health problems. Doctors told Mary that she needed to spend her winters in warmer climates. Henry and Mary Flagler were living in New York at the time, where it was cold. Since Florida wasn't very cold in the winter, that is why they moved there.

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