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Plantation Mobile Home Park 4 Culture Main article: Florida Bay, Miami Florida Business directory On April 22 1895 Flagler wrote Tuttle a long letter recapping her offer of land to him in exchange for extending his railroad to Miami laying out a city and building a hotel the terms provided that Tuttle would award Flagler a 100-acre (0.4 km2) tract of land for the city to grow Around the same time Flagler wrote a similar letter to William and Mary Brickell who had also verbally agreed to give land during his visit. Contents Miami Florida Business directory, Miami: Miami's public transportation is served by Miami-Dade Transit that runs Metrorail a heavy rail rapid transit system Metromover a people mover train system in Downtown Miami and Metrobus Miami's bus system Metrorail runs throughout Miami-Dade County and has two lines and 23 stations connecting to Downtown Miami's Metromover and Tri-Rail Metromover has three lines and 21 stations throughout Downtown Miami Outside of Miami-Dade County public transit in the Miami metropolitan area is served by Broward County Transit and Palm Tran; intercounty commuter rail service is provided by Tri-Rail with 18 stations including the region's three international airports. . 4.2 Tourism and conventions, Miami-Dade County is served by four Interstate Highways (I-75 I-95 I-195 I-395) and several U.S Highways including U.S Route 1 U.S Route 27 U.S Route 41 and U.S Route 441, The formation of the Central American Isthmus closed the Central American Seaway at the end of the Pliocene 2.8 Ma ago the formation of the isthmus resulted in the migration and extinction of many land-living animals known as the Great American Interchange but the closure of the seaway resulted in a "Great American Schism" as it affected ocean currents salinity and temperatures in both the Atlantic and Pacific Marine organisms on both sides of the isthmus became isolated and either diverged or went extinct. .

She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel, Dennis Lehane Map showing 5 circles the first is between western Australia and eastern Africa the second is between eastern Australia and western South America the third is between Japan and western North America Of the two in the Atlantic one is in hemisphere, Though spelled the same in English the Florida city's name has nothing to do with the Miami people who lived in a completely different part of North America. .