What lead us up to the endless luxury in the hotels of Miami Florida found here. Today everything is fast and big and it is easy to forget what things were like during the years that lead up to today. We were not born then so how do we know. It seems like people have always been able to keep themselves busy. The area of Miami, before the Europeans came in, was the home of the Tequestas Indians. They were first introduced to new people when the Spanish curseder Pedro Menendez de Aviles came in to take claim to the area. Then there would be a strong woman to move into the area and that is when things started to roll.
Julia Tuttle was a local citrus grower who convinced a major railroad tycoon, Henry Flagler, to bring his railroad down the coast to Miami. She had purchased a very large citrus plantation in the area after her husband had died. She had was the lucky one when a big freeze over Florida wiped out everyone accept her crops in Miami in 1895. She was the only one who could provide fruit for the year. She used her great fortune of escaping the freeze to lure that railroad owner down to her area and was successful at convincing him it would be worth it. He ended up building the railroad down and also built a hotel resort. She would end up giving him some land in exchange for the railroad construction.
The grandeur of Miami was eventually set in motion. The area boomed with workers and builders. One of the first places to stay was the Royal Palm Hotel. Miami grew up strong and many notable people would visit the city from all over the world and it is quite the hot spot.
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