![]() ![]() When the railroad entered Miami in the spring of 1896, a rising city was already underway on the north bank of the Miami River along Avenue D, today’s South Miami Avenue. But change was in the air for the isolated settlement of Miami, as railroad baron Henry Flagler and Julia Tuttle, who lived on the north bank of the Miami River, reached an agreement paving the way for the entry of Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway from West Palm Beach to Miami. ![]() As difficult as it is to imagine today, the Florida State Census in 1895 found just nine settlers living along the Miami River.
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