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2 unusual facts about Julia Tuttle


City of Miami Cemetery

Two other prominent sections are the circles: the first to Julia Tuttle, the "Mother of Miami" buried in 1898; the second, a memorial to the Confederate Dead erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Julia Tuttle

Either Flagler then recalled Tuttle's story of the tropical Biscayne Bay County weather and sent some men to investigate, or Tuttle alerted Flagler that the freeze had spared the Miami River, sending as evidence a bouquet of flowers and foliage (possibly oranges) to Flagler, whose order to extend the Florida East Coast Railway was then given.



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