As legend has it, when a devastating frost struck Palm Beach in the 1890s, Miami pioneer Julia Tuttle took the opportunity to send some fresh orange blossoms to Henry Flagler, to prove the tiny settlement on Biscayne Bay was a warm and fruitful place to do business.
The story may be apocryphal. But there is no question that Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway was soon chugging into town. And things were never the same again.
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