Our story actually begins in 1900 with George W. Ahrens and his son Frank F. Ahrens.  While living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 19 Frank was working with his father in a sheet metal shop in Camden, New Jersey.  Frank was very interested in the potential of South Florida and the exploits of Henry Morrison Flagler.  He finally decided to say good bye to his father and set his sights on the South.  Frank went to the local train station and purchased a ticket to the end of the line on Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad, which happened to be West Palm Beach.