The Miami Companion

Pastel Art Deco facades lit up at night, a city founded on a box of orange blossoms, and warm water year-round --- Florida's tropical gateway, with room to make it yours. The Miami Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: The Woman Who Convinced a Railroad Tycoon to Build Miami. Miami exists largely because one landowner sent a railroad baron a box of fresh orange blossoms after a devastating freeze --- proof that her land, unlike his, hadn't frozen at all.