Julia & Henry: Strictly Business.
The bloody Seminole wars and inaccessibility held the Biscayne Bay population to a handful of families for most of the 19th century. Julia Tuttle changed that in 1891. She set out to create a city in the wilderness. — Julia Tuttle She envisioned a great city, the best in the southland, she said in a rare interview with Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway newsletter. A woman of great foresight, she prophesied that her great city would become a center of trade with South America and a gateway to the Americas.