Old Fort Lauderdale Village at the intersection of the New River and the Florida East Coast Railway (F.E.C.) includes four turn-of-the-20th century historic buildings: the 1905 New River Inn, the 1905 Philemon N. Bryan House, the 1905 Acetylene Building, and the 1907 King-Cromartie House. The New River Inn, which houses a Museum of History and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built for Philemon N. Bryan from hollow concrete block made on site. Bryan, a grove owner, storekeeper, and former mayor of New Smyrna, was ruined by the great Florida freeze of 1894-95. F.E.C. owner Henry Flagler asked Bryan to build the railway section from the New River to Pompano, and in 1894 Philemon and his two sons, Tom and Reed, brought 400 African-American workers by boat from New Smyrna to build the roadbed. The first train to Miami reached Fort Lauderdale on February 22, 1896. Philemon and his sons later acquired land on either side of the railway tracks in what became downtown Fort Lauderdale, and in 1905 contractor Edwin T. King built the Inn, the Philemon Bryan House, and the nearby Tom and Reed Bryan houses, creating the first Fort Lauderdale residential neighborhood.