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to Miami took us into modern times and beyond with its endless and indecipherable motorway junctions . If the city has become what it is today it is mainly due to the ice storm of 1895 which wiped out the citrus groves , the main industry of the area at the time . The entrepreneur Julia Tuttle had believed in these lands and when the inland lands were sinking into the frost she sent an orange flower to Henry Flager who had the idea of extending the railway to this latitude . From there , a series of economic booms and busts saw the city ' s profile rise to what is now
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