The history books have overlooked one of the founding mothers of Miami, according to a United States historian, and she was a woman from Albury in New South Wales.
The contested version of the birth of Miami, Florida revolves around Julia Tuttle, who is described as the only woman to have founded a major US city.
The story goes that Tuttle sent railroad magnate Henry Flagler a bouquet of orange blossoms after two brutally cold winters in the mid-1890s — known as The Great Freeze — devastated prominent orange groves in northern Florida.
